Diatryma Terror Bird

Model February 21, 2026
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Paper: Tant (diagonally cut square)
Type: animal, figurative single-sheet (implies: figurative, living thing, single-sheet)
Author: Michał Kosmulski
Colors: brown and beige
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This is a 2026 refold of my oldest origami design that I’m aware of, the Diatryma terror bird. I designed it some time in the early 1990s, and for a long time it was my only custom design. It’s a pretty simple one, starting from a square cut in half diagonally, with two rabbit ears that produce the legs. It’s not very detailed, so it could represent an ostrich as well (the head should be larger for the actual terror bird).

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