Saber-Toothed Mammal Fossil Unearthed in California

Paleontologists have found the fossilized stays of a bobcat-sized creature from a extinct lineage of carnivorous placental mammals. Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae lived in what’s now California, the United States, some 42 million years in the past (Eocene interval). This historical predator is a part of Machaeroidinae, a taxonomically small group of carnivorous mammals that features the earliest recognized saber-toothed […]