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Newly identified fossil sheds light on evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats
- June 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber-toothed cat that inhabited North America more than 5 million years ago. Newly identified by a UC Berkeley paleontologist, the nearly complete skull helps clarify how these large-fanged felines evolved over millennia before going extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Originally published at Phys.org