Tens of millions of years ago, an apex predator resembling a giant crocodile stalked the humid freshwater floodplains of southern Patagonia. Measuring up to 11.5 feet (3.5 meters) long and weighing ...

"These are animals that specialize in killing and eating other animals, although they probably wouldn't pass up a juicy bit of fruit from time to time." The scientists estimated that this ...

Hidden somewhere in a drawer in Kenya’s Nairobi National Museum were fossilized bones that stayed off the radar for decades. Paleontologists finally uncovered those bones in the last few years, and it ...

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

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