Posts Tagged ‘carnivorous’

Brazilian carnivorous mammal-like reptile fossil may be new Aleodon species

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev Some Late Triassic Brazilian fossils of mammal-like reptiles, previously identified as Chiniquodon, may in fact be the first Aleodon specimens found outside Africa, according to a study published June 14, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Agustín Martinelli from the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do […]

Extinct carnivorous marsupial Nimbacinus dicksoni may have hunted prey larger than itself

The reconstruction of an extinct meat-eating marsupial’s skull, Nimbacinus dicksoni, suggests that it may have had the ability to hunt vertebrate prey exceeding its own body size, according to results published April 9, 2014, in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Marie Attard from the University of New England together with colleagues from the […]