Arlington, Va. -- The exotic island of Madagascar, situated off the southeast coast of Africa, was a dangerous place to live 65 million to 70 million years ago. Crocodiles swarmed in the rivers, and a ...

Madagascar produced some of the strangest predators in dinosaur history. Majungasaurus stood at the top of that list. Fossil evidence shows it fed not only on other animals, but on its own species.

New fossil evidence suggests a distant cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the plains of Madagascar millions of years ago regularly dined on its own kind to survive during hard times. The ...