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4 summaries matching “lion” in Paleontology & Fossil Felids on homotherium
Evolutionary History of Saber-Toothed Cats Based on Ancient Mitogenomics
PaperThis study recovered complete mitochondrial genomes from the dirk-toothed Smilodon and the scimitar-toothed Homotherium, allowing a genetic test of how these iconic sabertooths relate to one another a…
Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Ross Barnett, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, et al. · Current Biology · 2017
Research overview: big cats in the Quaternary megafaunal extinctions
OverviewThis overview surveys the disappearance of numerous large cats, including Smilodon, Homotherium, the American lion, the cave lion, and Miracinonyx, as part of the broader late Quaternary megafaunal ex…
Research overview: radiocarbon dating of late Pleistocene cats
OverviewThis overview examines how radiocarbon dating is applied to the bones of late Pleistocene cats to reconstruct their chronologies and last appearances. Directly dating individual fossils of Smilodon, c…
Research overview: the long global decline of the sabertooths
OverviewThis overview takes a deep-time perspective on the rise and fall of sabertooth cats, whose machairodont lineage flourished for more than ten million years before vanishing in the late Pleistocene. Aft…