| “ | Predators. We don't know how they evolved or when, but we know they're intelligent, we know they're quick and... really mean! | „ |
| ~ Connor describing the Future Predators |
Future Predators or Predators are the overarching antagonists of Primeval. They are an extremely deadly predatory species from the future, which were encountered by the Anomaly research team several times. They were the reason why Helen Cutter, the series main antagonist, wanted to change the future and destroy humanity.
The Predators are an evolved version of bats, as revealed by Connor when he analysed their DNA. Although they lost their hairs, their wings and are much bigger than their modern counterpart, they kept their echolocation.
An adult stands at about 2.5 meters tall but were very lightweight, they stood in a great ape-like stance, and as such could briefly stand on its hind legs to use its fore limbs. Predators had vicious teeth and claws, which they would use to cut right into a victim's jugular and flesh during a single attack, but they lacked lips so tended to drool.
Future Predators are incredibly fast, able to run at estimated top speeds of 125 km/h, and appear to be able to jump at huge distances, the estimated length of a tennis court approx. Predators also seem to be very good climbers; climbing and leaping between trees and building walls with ease and at great speeds, and even scaling said walls. Not very muscular, Future Predators rely more on their great speed, agility and acrobatics to take down prey.
They're extremely resistant to gunfire for such light-built creatures; a Predator would be practically unfazed and undeterred by a single gunshot to their hump, and multiple shots to the torso from a machine gun would only stun a Predator for a few seconds before it fully recovered. However, a direct gunshot to the Future Predator's skull would be fatal. Due to their fragile build, they could be killed by impact trauma from a massive force.
Their elongated head houses a highly intelligent brain and a melon organ; the former gives the Predator "human levels of intelligence," which allowed it to efficiently outsmart and second-guess its prey and enemies' moves and reactions, and stay one step ahead of them. Predators have no visible eyes and appeare to be visually blind, but possess echolocation as a highly advanced high-frequency sonar system. The Future Predator's ears are located on the centre of the face, giving the echolocation a more directed and precise interpretation of the surrounding environment - an improvement on that used by modern day bats. Though one of the Predator's greatest strengths and advantages against intelligent and fast opponents, the Future Predator's advanced sonar could also be its weakness; as the Home Office team were able to track the Predators by sound using dogs and an oscilloscope.
The babies and juvenilles were essentially a smaller sized Predator with minor differences. Their faces were more wrinkled and scrunched up then the adults and they only had a stump for a tail, which would later grow to 20cm. The babies made Hyaena-laughing-like calls when playing and high-pitched squeals when distressed.