Talk:Titanis

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Since when has it been definitively determined that Titanis's puny arms could "grab and hold prey", as the text states? I notice that the illustration promotes this idea as well, and neither instance bothers to mention that there are other people who think differently. Last I heard, this was still an ongoing debate. 70.210.133.14 (talk) 05:53, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, in fact last I heard it's pretty unlikely. I've revised the text. Dinoguy2 (talk) 07:52, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

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Some people think that Titanis is the same thing as Phorusrhacos. Should we add that to the article? Elasmosaurus (talk) 15:03, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually, not does the 10,000 B.C. article say that the bird attacking is a Titanis, but trivia sections are discouraged in wikipedia. The best option here is to delete the sentence or find a way to incorporate it into the article. (Not too hard to do BTW).

Best RegardsMonkeytheboy (talk) 18:16, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Concerning Appearances of Titanis
The terror bird subspecies in Primeval has not been confirmed to be a Titanis either, as they are only ever referred to as terror birds. I suggest removing both these pop culture references, since the claims that they are Titanis are unsupported in both cases. --24.36.130.109 (talk) 01:34, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Agreed.--Mr Fink (talk) 03:15, 4 November 2012 (UTC)

Inconsistency between this article and main Phorusrhacidae page
This page says Titanis is part of subfamily Brontornithinae, while the Phorusrhacidae article says it belongs to Phorusrhacinae. Something isn't right here.--24.36.139.110 (talk) 20:13, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I tried to amend the automatic taxobox template. This is strange.--Mr Fink (talk) 21:46, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

A little issue
According to the Florida Museum of Natural History, as well as this article (http://www.wired.com/2011/02/terror-birds-aint-what-they-used-to-be-a-titanis-take-down/), Titanis was only 1.5 meters tall. Shouldn't the "2.5 meters long" text be changed?

50.158.207.70 (talk) 20:46, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Fake Reference Vandalism
Why is there an apparent concerted effort by a vandal or vandals to put in fake references to support a false claim of Titanis being alive? Is there some new Discovery Channel fake-umentary spewing bullshit?--Mr Fink (talk) 02:47, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * No, as far I now, but the same thing is happening in the article of Dinornis...--Rextron (talk) 07:22, 24 December 2017 (UTC)
 * I would ask the vandal doing this why it's doing and why it believes people are stupid enough to automatically accept obviously fake references, but, if we go by the behavior of its sockpuppet PaleoPHD, it gets prone to lobbing childish invectives in revenge for anyone daring to question the obvious validity and obvious authority magically granted to it by its obviously fake credentials.--Mr Fink (talk) 16:59, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

Confusion in lead section
In the lead, it states "Titanis was thought to be carnivorous and most likely preyed on the many small mammals of the time period." Is that meant to mean "Titanis is thought to have been carnivorous..." or does it mean it was, at one time, thought to have been carnivorous, but not any more. In the later case, what is the newer thinking?

Graham.Fountain | Talk 12:50, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Titanis
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Titanis's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Nature": From Bird:  From Dromaeosauridae:  From Kelenken:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. Feel free to remove this comment after fixing the refs. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:18, 15 May 2023 (UTC)