Titanis

Name: Titanis ("titanic")

Habitat: Plains of North America

Historical Time: Early Pliocene-Early Pleistocene (5-2 million years ago)

Size and Weight: About 8 feet tall and 300 pounds

Diet: Meat

Fact:  Titanis closely resembled its theropod(raptor) dinosaur forebears, especially its puny arms with long-taloned, grasping hands