His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.” ...

the researchers were able to compare findings from those remains with the Bastetodon skull and demonstrate that both carnivores belonged to the same group of hyaenodonts that originated in Africa.

"His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist." ...

Illustration of a giant panda, an example of an herbivorous, or plant-specializing species in the mammal group Carnivora. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 07 Feb. 2018, issue ...

We have made a good collection of carnivores - skulls and skeletal bones of fossils of fox, wolf, brown bear and cave lion," the expert said. During the autopsy of an ancient bison in March ...