Researchers have discovered two new sabertooth species by studying one of the biggest Pliocene fossil collections at Langebaanweg.
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Prehistoric carnivorous giant panda
An ancient family of giant panda that were predators has been found by a team of Chinese and American paleontologists.
Paleontologists discovered a rare fossil of an ancient dog species
Did they walk on their toes like today’s dogs? Did they burrow in the ground or live in trees? What food did they prey on and what animals preyed upon them? How did they relate to extinct doglike species that came before them? And, potentially, is this an entirely new undiscovered species? This new fossil is providing SDNHM scientists with a few more pieces of an incomplete evolutionary puzzle.