Comments by "Eric Astier" (@ericastier1646) on "When Giant Terror Birds Were Apex Predators" video.

  1. The theory of terrorbirds being carnivores falls flat when you look at Parrot beaks. It is hooked and why, to break open nut shells. It is very likely that there existed larger nuts that fell from trees when Giant terror birds existed. This is a much stronger theory than the ridiculous chasing on land of herbivores which makes no sense. There is no convergent evolution that would support a flightless carnivorous bird unless it had a jabbing spear like beak like a heron, and even so that only works for ambush, no flightless bird could chase run and make a prey fall while running and it could never project its claws forward while running (impossible), only while standing (cassowary), much less kill a large mammal with a single hook blow. There are so many impossibilities with that theory, it's simply false and should have been debunked long ago.
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  2. @Le Stain Du Poop, Esq That would still be far from proving that is hunted chasing large fast mammals like a cheetah. It could have been an ambush predator that ate whatever weird meaty gigantic insect existed.
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