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Bookmark or Share- 35,000-year-old frozen saber-toothed cat mummy studied for first time everCompared with the modern lion cub's remains, the Homotherium cat's ears are up higher on the skull, and its mouth opening is about 11% to 19% larger, according to the study. Its neck is also ...
- Homotherium - WikipediaHomotherium is an extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, Eurasia, and Africa (as well as possibly South America) during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago. [1] [2] It was one of the last surviving members of the subfamily alongside the more famous sabertooth Smilodon, to ...
- Genomic Adaptations and Evolutionary History of the Extinct Scimitar ...Homotherium was a genus of large-bodied scimitar-toothed cats, morphologically distinct from any extant felid species, that went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene [1–4].
- 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten with preserved whiskers pulled ...Saber-toothed cats of the extinct genus Homotherium lived across the globe during the Pliocene (5.3 million to 2.6 million years ago) and early Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) epochs ...
- Stunningly Preserved Saber-Toothed Kitten Studied in World First"One of the striking features of the morphology of Homotherium, both in adults and in the studied cub, is the presence of an enlarged premaxillary bone," the authors write. This jaw shape allows for the genus's characteristic row of large, cone-shaped incisors.
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