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Discovery of extinct saber tooth cub could aid modern-day big cat conservation efforts

For nearly 35,000 years, the remains of a long-extinct saber-toothed cub lay preserved in permafrost in the Indigirka River basin of Yakutia, Russia. In 2020, a team of Russian scientists stumbled ...
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World First 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Kitten Found Mummified In Permafrost

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Newsweek

‘Dog-Like’ Fossil Discovery May Be Oldest Known Saber-Toothed Animal

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have revealed what may be the earliest known saber-toothed animal to have ever lived—a predator that ...
Sacramento Bee

‘Little ugly’ rock picked up on Texas coast. Then researchers see tooth poking through

A ‘strange’ rock picked up off of a Texas coast almost 60 years ago turned out to be a fossil of an ‘extinct saber-toothed cat,’ researchers said. Photo by Christina Lee via Unsplash A “strange” rock ...
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Giant sloths and sabertooth cats : extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin / Donald K. Grayson ; with animal reconstructions by Wally Woolfenden

Sloth in prison -- The Great Basin now and then -- A zoologically impoverished world -- Dating an ass -- A stable of ground sloths -- Extinct mammals, dangerous plants, and the early peoples of the ...