Paleontologists found the fossils of four extinct saber-toothed cat species, including those of two newly-discovered species.
Paleontologists discovered two new species of saber-toothed cats that roamed South Africa more than 5 million years ago.
Skull and teeth remains from two unknown species of ancient predators, plus fossils from two already-discovered saber-toothed cat species, appeared in a dig site eight miles from the Atlantic coast of South Africa, called Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry. The paper that announced the fossils on Thursday in the journal iScience calls Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry “one of the most important fossil communities” for understanding what happened during a major transition in our planet’s history, when the lush wet forests were disappearing, and in their wake, came grasslands, wooded forests, and a cooler world. FULL STORY from Inverse
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