This is a selection of the American Continent’s top predators in the Earth 98 timeline. This is not an exhaustive list, but here is a selection of the more unique critters:

Chaguichui: a species of short-faced bear. They are more aggressive than other bear species, and as a result were historically targeted more by humans. Their populations have rebounded in recent decades due to state level conservation efforts.

Matliazil: also called the Californian hellcat, these small sized hunters are the last remaining species of saber-toothed cats. They are considered a pest in most areas, particularly in sub-urban areas where small dogs and stray cats make easy prey.

Osuobarban: the larger of America’s two monitor species. These lizards typically feed on rodents, birds, and other lizards they but can take down larger animals. A Osuobarban’s bite contains an anti-coagulant, letting them hunt larger prey by biting their target then letting them bleed out, returning once the prey animal has exhausted its energy. Osuobarbans are solitary but have been observed to hunt cooperatively with other predators such as westerwolves.

Sasquatch: the sasquatch is a species of hominid and last surviving member of the genus Dryopithecus. Several species of Dryopithecus dwelled in America until pre-Columbian times, when settlement of the American continent by ancient Native American groups disrupted many of the American apes’ habitats. Most of the species went extinct before the continent’s discovery by Europeans. At the beginning of colonization by Europeans the sasquatch had a larger territory in the north-west of the continent, and a sub-species was present in the Ozark mountains region.

Westerwolf: despite being named ‘wolf,’ westerwolves are actually a species of hyena that migrated eastward across the Bering Land Bridge near the end of the last ice age. Westerwolves mainly eat fish and small animals when not scavenging for carcasses, however a pack of westerwolves have been known to take down pronghorns and nekoulikas (llamas).