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New Fossil Expands Geographic Footprint of Scimitar-Toothed Cat Homotherium


Paleontologists from the University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered a fragmentary jaw of the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium on McFaddin Beach, Texas.

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