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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

Mummified #SaberToothed Kitten Emerges in #Siberia
The #Homotherium cub was preserved in Siberian #permafrost with its fur and flesh intact.
Using CT scans to examine cub’s bones, Dr. Lopatin and colleagues confirmed the 37,000-year-old mummy was a Homotherium, a rangy, lion-size cat with long forelimbs and heavy shoulders. The species was the last of the saber-toothed cats, which occupied a branch on the tree of life distinct from modern #felines.
nytimes.com/2024/11/18/science
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The New York Times · A Mummified Saber-Toothed Kitten Emerges in SiberiaBy Asher Elbein
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Ashley Reynolds

Friends, I have VERY IMPORTANT cat paleo news! There is a permafrost mummy of the sabre-toothed cat Homotherium!!! And it is ADORABLE.

Article is open access:
nature.com/articles/s41598-024

NatureMummy of a juvenile sabre-toothed cat Homotherium latidens from the Upper Pleistocene of Siberia - Scientific ReportsThe frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia. The study of the specimen appearance showed its significant differences from a modern lion cub of similar age (three weeks) in the unusual shape of the muzzle with a large mouth opening and small ears, the very massive neck region, the elongated forelimbs, and the dark coat color. Tomographic analysis of the mummy skull revealed the features characteristic of Machairodontinae and of the genus Homotherium. For the first time in the history of paleontology, the appearance of an extinct mammal that has no analogues in the modern fauna has been studied.
#CatsOfMastodon#Homotherium#OpenAccess
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