New Saber Tooth Cat Finding From Teeth

[Scylla]

Studying their teeth points to a forrest dwelling hunter of tapirs

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/08/saber-tooth-cats-surprise-fossils-redraw-picture-of-big-cat/

[Oxytropidoceras]

Intense look at La Brea Tar Pits explains why we 

have coyotes, not saber-toothed cats 

http://phys.org/news/2019-08-intense-la-brea-tar-pits.html

http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2019/08/la-brea-carnivores.html

 

DeSantis, L.R., Crites, J.M., Feranec, R.S., Fox-Dobbs, 

K., Farrell, A.B., Harris, J.M., Takeuchi, G.T. and Cerling,

T.E., 2019. Causes and Consequences of Pleistocene 

Megafaunal Extinctions as Revealed from Rancho La 

Brea Mammals. Current Biology, 29(15), pp.2488-2495.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.06.059

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30786-9

 

Free pdf, limited time only:

https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0960-9822(19)30786-9

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.