Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

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Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

Mansee Khurana, Short Wave, November 16, 2024

 

World First 35,000-Year-Old Saber-Toothed Kitten Found Mummified In Permafrost                    

The appearance of the extinct animal has been a mystery – until now.

Tom Hale, IFLScience, November 16, 2024

 

The open access paper is:

 

Lopatin, A.V., Sotnikova, M.V., Klimovsky, A.I., Lavrov, A.V., Protopopov, A.V., 

Gimranov, D.O. and Parkhomchuk, E.V., 2024. Mummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed 

cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia. Scientific

 Reports, 14(1), p.28016.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[Randyw]

Amazing! I had missed this report. Thanks for posting this!