Paleontologists in Egypt have unearthed a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, an extinct group of apex predators that once dominated African ecosystems. The discovery, made in the Fayum ...

This clade is called Pan-Carnivora and includes Carnivoramorpha (which encompasses all living Carnivora species), Hyaenodonta (literally, “hyena teeth”), and Oxyaenodonta (Machaeroides’ clade).