This documentary uncovers the rise of Pachycrocuta, the powerful bone-crushing hyena that dominated Ice Age landscapes. It explores how this massive carnivore developed extreme jaw strength and ...

Only a few million years ago, Hyenas lived very different lives from what we know today. Hyenas weren’t always able to eat bones. In fact, only a few million years ago, they lived very different lives ...

Hyenas in the modern day are very capable predators that, despite their close association with scavenging, are capable of warding off attacks from adult lions. The most widespread and formidable ...

Paleontologists and parasitologists found helminth eggs in coprolites (fossil excrement) of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta. This is the earliest finding indicating that this species of hyena ...

Author: Juan José Rodríguez-Alba.

The record of fossil mammalian remains from Poggio Rosso, Upper Valdarno, represents one of the richest samples for deciphering paleobiological information on latest Pliocene land faunas of central ...