A species of the Hyaenodonta family as depicted by Heinrich Harder in Wilhelm Bolsche’s Tiere der Urwelt (Animals of the Prehistoric World). A new fossil from this extinct predator gives ...

Skull of Ancient, Extinct Apex Predator With Teeth Like Cat and Body ... to know more about this extinct group of carnivorous animals," she mentioned. The researchers named the previously ...

The study found that the skull was about 30 million years old and came from what was at the time an apex predator. The Bastet was a member of the hyaenodonta family. This family of animals has ...

These apex predators had large, elongated skulls that housed a lot of teeth. They likely preyed on early elephants, hyraxes and other animals, including our primate ancestors. In the lab ...

Researchers have reconstructed the skull of prehistoric predator, Crassigyrinus scoticus ... There was no chance that an animal with such a wide palate and such a narrow skull roof could have ...

The recent discovery of a complete sabertooth cat skull from southwest Iowa provides the first evidence of this animal in the state. It also offers clues about an iconic Ice Age predator before the ...

Researchers unearthed the skull in 2020 during an expedition ... strength meant it could take down large animals, and would not have had any predators of its own. "They were really, really ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million ... like a hole on the sides of their skull for the jaw muscle to attach and structures ...

So far, paleontologists have uncovered a well-preserved skull and ... very large predators,” he added. “The more we look, we might find more answers about these major animal groups that ...

We have found everything from fragments of skull ... animal scientists have ever found with long, blade-like canine teeth.” These saber teeth suggest that this gorgonopsian was a top predator ...