Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Ancient saber-toothed cat was 'cookie cutter' cat
[ Tue, 1 Nov 2011 21:39:45 GMT ]

Some 1 million years ago a saber-toothed cat, now identified as Xenosmilis, took down prey with knifelike teeth; the beast is shown here drinking at a pool of water.A new type of saber-toothed cat has just been revealed: the "cookie-cutter cat," whose name comes from how it chomped large, clean chunks of flesh from its prey.


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