Explore: Fossil Predatory Animals

Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms comprising the biological kingdom Animalia (/ˌænɪˈmeɪliə/). With few exceptions, animals consume organic

groups of organisms. Trace fossils also provide our earliest evidence of animal life on land. Evidence of the first animals that appear to have been fully

direct evidence of predatory or agonistic behaviour in non-avian dinosaurs. The specimen has caused much debate as to how both animals came to be preserved

direct evidence of predatory behavior. When originally reported, it was hypothesized that the two animals drowned. However, as the animals were preserved

lake bed. Fossils preserved include fish, alligators, bats, turtles, a dog-sized horse, insects, and many other species of plants and animals — suggest

living animals are all whales. Since no scale can accommodate the whole body of a large whale, most have been weighed by parts. The heaviest land animals are

Before the existence of land plants, animals and fungi, all eukaryotes were protists. As a result, the early fossil record of protists is equivalent to

developed during the late Ordovician period. They are first represented in the fossil record from the Silurian by two groups of fish: the armoured fish known

rareness of big, fierce animals: speculations about the body sizes, population densities, and geographic ranges of predatory mammals and large carnivorous

needed] Although humans can be attacked by many kinds of non-human animals, man-eating animals are those that have incorporated human flesh into their usual