The tiger is the largest member of the cat family, Felidae. This solitary hunter is an apex predator, with no natural predators of its own. As well as being found in tropical jungles, the tiger can live in grasslands, and even taiga forests that are covered with snow for much of the y...
Colloquially known as terror birds, these pre-historical creatures are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic, 62–2 million years ago. Terror birds were up to 10 feet high, weighed up to half...
The largest land animals ever to walk the Earth – the titanosaurs – existed during this time. Herds of ‘duck-billed’ hadrosaurids became the dominant plant-eaters, displacing the huge sauropods in many parts of the world. The carcharodontosaurids – the largest land predators ever to ha...
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Colloquially known as terror birds, these pre-historical creatures are an extinct clade of large carnivorous flightless birds that were the largest species of apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic, 62–2 million years ago. Terror birds were up to 10 feet high, weighed up to half...