Terror Birds

Perhaps those mysterious warrior monks have been training new adepts longer than we thought:

Terror Birds: Predators With a Kung Fu Kick?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0801_050801_terrorbirds.html

and they may have been bigger than we thought too:

Huge bird-like dinosaur unearthed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6750005.stm

All of which leaves this poor neanderthal in a heap of trouble...

Pic courtesy of the film 10,000 BC