The tribe Machairodontini is a major lineage of felid sabertooth cats that flourished in the late
Cenozoic and included the top predators in the ecosystem of that time. As top predators …

The diagnosis of different fossil taxa in small collections from disparate geographical and
temporal contexts is a common challenge in palaeontology. The likely number of …

How snow leopard gradually adapted to the extreme environments in Tibet remains
unexplored due to the scanty fossil record in Tibet. Here, we recognize five valid outside …

The iconic sabretooth Homotherium is thought to have hunted cooperatively, but the origin of
this behaviour and correlated morphological adaptations are largely unexplored. Here we …

The carnivore guild of the Early Pleistocene site of Dmanisi is among the most diverse of the
Early Pleistocene of the entire Old World. It includes 14 carnivoran taxa: Homotherium …

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is the largest living cat species native to the Americas and one
of few large American carnivorans to have survived into the Holocene. However, the extent …

The Yuanmou hominid site is a rare Late Miocene fossil locality in southern China, where
thousands of fossil specimens of the ape Lufengpithecus hudiensis have been found. These …

Panthera gombaszoegensis was recorded over from 100 African and Eurasian localities,
ranged between 2.5 and 0.3 Myr. Among them, seven cave sites, Żabia, Tunel Wielki, Kozi …

The Villafranchian stage in the mammal fauna evolution in Eurasia (ca. 3.6/3.4 Ma—ca. 1.2
Ma) is associated with the beginning of the formation of the modern appearance of the …

Recently collected carnivoran specimens from the Siwalik Group of Pakistan are described
and discussed. These specimens add to our knowledge of the previously known taxa while …