Saturday, November 16, 2024

Homotherium: A mummified, 32,000 year old saber tooth kitten has been found


The mummy of a three week old saber tooth kitten was found in 2020, frozen in the Siberian permafrost.  This find just hit the news yesterday.  In this video above, a real paleontologist gives us some background on Homotherium, which did live here in the U.S., among other places around the world.  But the mummified kitten was a Homotherium, not the more famous Smilodon, the saber tooth cat with the 9 inch canine teeth.  According to this video, Homotherium were part cat-like and part dog-like, and built for distance running.  Check out the video for more details on this extinct animal.  I believe this is the first mummified saber toothed cat ever found, which is amazing.  

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