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This species, discovered in Italy, had an over 8 inch long skull, much bigger than most of its existing cousins entire size and disproportionately large for its roughly fox-sized body, and an estimated head-and-body length of about 2 feet. It is considered a species of moonrat or gymnure, a group still living with about 15 present species.

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A 38 kg giant pangolin specimen nicknamed “Ghost” is considered pivotal in shedding light on the habits of these endangered and most poached of animals

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A pair of Cape porcupines go on the offensive against a leopard while protecting their offspring

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A crane hawk eating a frog while simultaneously pinning down and killing a snake

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A boa ingesting a green iguana up in a tree

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A Sarcosuchus ambushes a herd of Ouranosaurus (by Raph Lomotan)

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Shrub-ox, or Euceratherium, was a cousin of a muskox intermittent between a muskox and bison in size, finds itself surrounded by dire wolves (by Eongriel)

Peltocephalus maturin, a massive freshwater turtle of Pleistocene Brazil at about 334 kg in average weight (nearly twice that of an average modern Galapagos tortoise) and up to nearly 6 feet in carapace length (by Júlia d'Oliveira)

Tug of war between an impala and a fairly small Nile crocodile

A red-knobbed coot beats up a white-backed duck, the photographer thought the duck was dead for a moment

A leopard with a probable subadult spotted hyena kill

A tawny eagle feeds on a striped polecat kill

A bobcat takes out a large jackrabbit

A shelled snack: a coyote carrying off a young nine-banded armadillo

A juvenile martial eagle gouging into a young antelope catch

A hungry polar bear in the summer months, when prey is most scarce, trying to capture an arctic fox

A Eoneophron engages in tool use when it comes upon an egg too large to crack, utilizing a club from a baby ankylosaur skeleton (by Hodari Nundu)

A male western capercaillie engages in aggression at some cross-country skiers

A showdown between two Niolamia argentina, an ornately armored meiolaniid turtle weighing some 200-450 kg from Eocene South America (by Mario Lanzas)

A saltwater crocodile swimming with a 51 year old male victim in Indonesia

Deinogalerix koenigswaldi, a species that existed in the Late Miocene, is the largest known species of eulipotyphlan (the group including shrews, moles &amp; hedgehogs) (by GeOs_psiptus)

A 38 kg giant pangolin specimen nicknamed “Ghost” is considered pivotal in shedding light on the habits of these endangered and most poached of animals

A pair of Cape porcupines go on the offensive against a leopard while protecting their offspring

A crane hawk eating a frog while simultaneously pinning down and killing a snake

A boa ingesting a green iguana up in a tree

A Sarcosuchus ambushes a herd of Ouranosaurus (by Raph Lomotan)

Deinogalerix koenigswaldi, a species that existed in the Late Miocene, is the largest known species of eulipotyphlan (the group including shrews, moles & hedgehogs) (by GeOs_psiptus)