titanis

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    (meaning "Titan" for the Titans of Greek mythology) a genus of phorusrhacid ("terror birds", a group originating in South America), an extinct family of large, predatory birds, in the order Cariamiformes that inhabited the United States during the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene.

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    In Greek mythology, Titanis is an obscure figure who is connected to Artemis, the goddess of the hunt.