Researchers studying an ancient predator made a surprising discovery that suggests the bulky reptile would have been fast and speedy, comparable to a modern-day mountain lion. Anteosaurus roamed the ...

Judging by its massive, bone-crushing teeth, gigantic skull and powerful jaw, there is no doubt that the Anteosaurus, a premammalian reptile that roamed the African continent 265 to 260 million years ...

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The University of Witwatersrand’s evolutionary studies institute has rebranded a pre-mammalian reptile, the Anteosaurus. Previously assumed to be a sluggish, slow-moving animal, scientists now think ...

Some 260 million years ago, before the rise of dinosaurs, bone-crushing anteosaurs reigned as land’s largest predators. A new analysis of an anteosaur skull suggests that these hefty reptiles may have ...

A hippopotamus-size predator that lived 265 million years ago was unexpectedly speedy for such a bulky beast. Scientists previously viewed the dinosaur-like reptile Anteosaurus as slow and plodding ...

Julien Benoit receives funding from the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences. Despite its name, Anteosaurus was not a dinosaur. It belonged to the dinocephalians, a family of mammal like ...

Judging by its massive, bone-crushing teeth, gigantic skull and powerful jaw, there is no doubt that the Anteosaurus, a premammalian reptile that roamed the African continent 265 to 260 million years ...

The transparent skull of Anteosaurus (left) and Moschognathus (right) showing the differences in their brain cavities (green) and inner ear (purple). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

Skull. Cranium. NA. Partial, Unprepared Stratigraphy Beaufort Group Collection Date 1963 USNM Number PAL410214 Place Beaufort West District, Cape Prov, South Africa Published Name Anteosaurus ...

3D imaging of the dinocephalian, Anteosaurus, shows that this massive premammalian reptile that grew to the size of a full-grown hippopotamus, was a highly agile killing machine, and not a slow stodgy ...

Previously thought of as heavy, slow and sluggish, the 260-million-year-old predator, Anteosaurus, was a ferocious hunter-killer. Judging by its massive, bone-crushing teeth, gigantic skull and ...