A curator’s curiosity jumpstarted a 10-year journey that led from a collection of decades-old remains to the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador. Along the way, a new species of carnivorous ...

A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and Technology (HU) Professor Dr. Steven Jasinski, has published a study on fossil carnivoran mammals from the foothills of the ...

The ancestors of our furry cats and dogs once looked similar to today's modern mongoose, a mammal with a long body and small, round ears. In fact, all members of the order Carnivora, which includes a ...

Researchers have examined a 10 million-year-old fossil to identify the carnivoran mammals that lived in the world's tallest mountain in northern India. The discovery provides insights into the ...

The beast’s head was huge. From the back to the front, its fossil skull measures more than 2.7 feet and preserves an impressive armament of piercing and crushing teeth. It looks like a skull that ...

A scientific team from the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC) and the University of Huelva has documented for the first time an unexpected behavior in several carnivorous mammals: the predation of adult ...

Twenty-three million years ago, a giant carnivore larger than any modern-day lion or polar bear stalked sub-Saharan Africa, according to the fossils of a previously undiscovered species that spent ...

The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was driven by their need to improve as killers, researchers suggest. The evolutionary success of the first large predators on land was ...

A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the top of its skull could hunt effectively despite having wide-set eyes, like a cow ...