The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

The giant short-faced hyena, Pachycrocuta brevirostris, was the largest and most
spectacular bone-cracking hyena that ever existed. Although already extinct long ago, it was …

Hyaenas are relevant members of the Plio-Pleistocene carnivore guilds in Africa and
Eurasia. The spotted hyena Crocuta crocuta is an important element of the dispersal events …

The paleontological site of Fouvent-Saint-Andoche (Fouvent-le-Bas, Haute-Saône, France)
is a large bone accumulation in a karstic context known since the early nineteenth century …

This article examines the role of the Late Pleistocene climatic changes in the disappearance
of the European populations of spotted hyenas. A species distribution model was built using …

Late Pleistocene spotted hyenas hunted Przewalski horses in spring to early summer, as
documented by foetal horse skeleton remains of Equus ferus cf. przewalskii Poljakoff 1881 …

The giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest bone-cracking carnivore that ever
existed. With the mass of a lioness, it had massive limbs with shortened distal bones and a …

Recently collected fossil material in the Villafranchian locality of Sésklo, as well as a re-
evaluation of a pre-existing, partly-published museum collection, allow the recognition of a …

We review the larger pattern of appearance of the Hyaenidae in Europe and outline their
part in the turnover of the guild of larger Carnivora that occurs across the Miocene–Pliocene …

Abstract The European wild ass (Equus hydruntinus) is a globally extinct Eurasian equid.
This species was widespread in Europe and southwest Asia during the Late Pleistocene, but …