The prehistoric creature is thought to have lived around 280-270 million years ago and was likely a "top predator" in its day ...

Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...

A saber-toothed predator from over 270 million years ago has been unearthed on Mallorca. The fossil represents the ...

An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had ...

But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ever found — is filling a longstanding blank space in the group’s history. These slender predators are ...

But this was no ordinary whale. “I immediately went, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s a spade-toothed whale!’” the senior marine science adviser for New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC ...

Fossils of the oldest saber-toothed predator are helping researchers understand the evolution of early mammal relatives called gorgonopsians and our shared origins in the therapsid group.