carnivora

I mean it is believed that Creodonts disappeared due to the concurrence of the Carnivora order.

While carnivore does mean of the order Carnivora (which includes animals like the Giant Panda), the term carnivorous does simply mean that the animal mostly eats meat.

There is even a civet genus labeled 'paradoxus' that eats mostly berries and fruit despite being under the carnivora family.

The are talking about taxonomy (order Carnivora in the class Mammalia) not diet.

Indeed, humans and members of the order Carnivora share a small colon size.

However, the gut transit time in Carnivora is much faster than in humans.

The only known carnivora that is evolving to turn into a filterer.

Sort of - it's more accurate to say that the order Perissodactyla (containing horses) shares a common ancestor with the order carnivora labeled #4 in the picture.

What it indicates, rather, is that at the time of divergence from other Carnivora there was a lack of evolutionary pressure for conserving the taste of sweetness.

The pattern also has caniform, feliform as a partition of extant carnivora; but no *homiform; alas, Wikipedia only gives simiiform, the higher primates.

"Is a ferret a rodent?" - The ferret is the domesticated member of the Order Carnivora, Family Mustelidae and Genus Mustela.

For the record, all members of the Genus Ursus belong to the Order Carnivora, which literally translates to "Meat Eaters".

I had a veterinarian teach me that carnivore has nothing to do with diet, and means that the animal is in the order Carnivora, which are mostly distinguished by having canine teeth.

It was a big and very specialized member of the order Carnivora.

For example, cats are obligate meat eaters, order Carnivora.