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Mechanical analysis of feeding behavior in the extinct "terror bird" Andalgalornis steulleti (Gruiformes: Phorusrhacidae)Federico J Degrange
CONICET División Paleontología Vertebrados, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
PLoS ONE 5:e11856. 2010..We suggest that it either consumed smaller prey that could be killed and consumed more safely (e.g., swallowed whole) or that it used multiple well-targeted sagittal strikes with the beak in a repetitive attack-and-retreat strategy...
Geometric morphometrics of the skull of Tinamidae (Aves, Palaeognathae)Federico J Degrange
División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque, La Plata, 1900 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Zoology (Jena) 113:334-8. 2010..This study allows establishing that genera and, in some cases, the gender of the Tinamidae can be differentiated based on cranial shape...
Virtual reconstructions of the endocranial cavity of Rhea americana (Aves, Palaeognathae): postnatal anatomical changesMariana B J Picasso
División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina
Brain Behav Evol 76:176-84. 2010..Finally, the brain of R. americana is similar to that of Struthio and Dromaius, but differs from that of the Tinamidae and of Apteryx, allowing recognition of 3 distinct brain morphologies among the Palaeognathae...
Flexibility along the neck of the neogene terror bird Andalgalornis steulleti (Aves Phorusrhacidae)Claudia P Tambussi
División Paleontología Vertebrados, Museo de La Plata, Paseo del Bosque s n, La Plata, Argentina
PLoS ONE 7:e37701. 2012..A previous biomechanical study suggests that the skull would be prepared to make sudden movements in the sagittal plane to subdue prey...
