Long before it was one of the most populated regions in the United States and full of freeways, Southern California had tropical forests and was also home to a saber-toothed, hypercarnivorous predator ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Some 30 million years ago, during what’s known as the Oligocene Epoch, a leopard-like hypercarnivore—that is, an animal whose diet is at least 70 percent meat—stalked the lush forest of Fayum, Egypt.

An unidentified fossil collected more than three decades ago was actually a mysterious species of saber-toothed carnivore that once stalked prey through the ancient rainforests of Southern California.

For thousands of years, our understanding of Neanderthals painted them as brute-force hunters, powerful, relentless, and single-mindedly carnivorous. They chased mammoths across frozen plains, brought ...

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, ...