This ancient animal, which does not yet have a species name, is the member of an evolutionary group known as the gorgonopsians — a distant relative of mammals - that are an extinct clade of ...

Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil record. But the discovery of a newly identified gorgonopsian — the oldest saber-toothed animal ...

They say the new fossil, which doesn’t have a species name yet, is a member of a group called the gorgonopsians. Study co-author Dr. Ken Angielczyk, of the Field Museum in Chicago, said ...