Latest articles by Julio Lacerda

Many species of birds today exhibit elaborate displays for attracting mates. We now have evidence that at least some of their long-dead relatives did the same.

Racing across the plains of Argentina were strange feathery shapes, taller than a man. They pecked their prey to death with hooked beaks mounted on heads as big as that of a horse’s. These were the terror birds, the dominant predators of their day and age.

They were once entombed within frozen soil, lying buried for sixty-nine million years. Only now are we beginning to discover Dinosaur Age Alaska, from its perilous seas with veritable leviathans, to snowy forests ruled by pygmy tyrants. Alaska’s prehistoric past comes to life like never before, and in detail more spectacular than ever imaginable.