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Saber-toothed Cats and Bear Dogs: How They Made Cohabitation Work

By Guest PostNovember 8, 2012Scienceanalysis, batallones, bear dog, carbon 12, carbon isotope, cat species, catherine badgley, cats, cerro, de, extinct mammals, food web, fossilized fangs, geological pits, habitat, history, late, los, machairodus aphanistus, madrid, mammalian predator, michigan, miocene, miocene period, neutrons, nucleus, palaeontologist, promegantereon ogygia, ratio, saber toothed, soledad domingo, stable, tooth enamel, u m museum, university, woodland area

ANN ARBOR — The fossilized fangs of saber-toothed cats hold clues to how the extinct mammals shared space and food with other large predators 9 million years ago.

Led by the University of Michigan and the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales in Madrid, a team of paleontologists has analyzed the tooth enamel of two species of saber-toothed cats and a bear dog unearthed in geological pits near Madrid. Bear dogs, also extinct, had dog-like teeth and a bear-like body and gait. (more…)

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Saber-toothed Cats and Bear Dogs: How They Made Cohabitation Work

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