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Teratornithidae
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Teratornithidae [‚ter·ə·tȯr′nith·ə‚dē]
(paleontology)
An extinct family of vulturelike birds of the Pleistocene of western North America included in the order Falconiformes.


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Analyses of the bone collagen extracted from the teratorns and western black vultures preserved in the La Brea tar pits between 35,000 and 10,000 years ago suggest that those birds consumed only the remains of browsers such as ground sloths and grazers such as bison.
 
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