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36,000-Year-Old Scimitar-Toothed Cat Cub Found in Yakutian Permafrost


The 36,000-year-old frozen specimen from Yakutia belongs to Homotherium latidens, a species of scimitar-toothed cat that inhabited Eurasia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs.

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