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Paleontologists from around the world will descend on Cincinnati this fall for the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP).

Ketchikan: Ketchikan Community Risk Level Raised to HIGH; Ketchikan High School Closed Through Friday, May 7th - The  Ketchikan Emergency Operations Center and Ketchikan School District have seen an increase in COVID-19 cases in the past couple of weeks, including an increase in community spread cases. There are 12 new cases reported in Ketchikan today, and 9 cases reported on Monday.  Seven of those cases were determined to be close contacts to a known positive case, three were attributed to...

A 600 Pound Rhino-Hunting Saber-Toothed Cat Once Roamed the Earth Twitter 0 comments It’s time to add another ruthless, mauling beast to the list of prehistoric predators that we’re both sad and relieved to know are no longer around: Machairodus lahayishupup, a 660-pound saber-toothed cat that likely roamed across around North America between 5 and 9 million years ago. Its discoverers say the fanged feline was so big, in fact, it probably hunted rhinoceros. Science Alert reported on the d...

Machairodus lahayishupup could easily have taken on prey weighing several tons. To identify the new saber-toothed cat species, Orcutt, who is now an assistant professor of biology at Gonzaga University, and Calede painstakingly investigated the forearm bones of lions, jaguars, tigers, and other modern big cats to determine whether their elbow shapes could reliably differentiate one species from the next. “We found we could quantify the differences on a fairly fine scale,” Calede says in a p...

Newly Discovered Species of Saber-Toothed Cat Was So Big It Hunted Rhinos in America Artist’s impression of the new saber-toothed cat/Roger Witter The last 10 or 15 million years have given us some truly mega mammals, like mammoths, bears, cats, rhinos, and deer that were all much larger than their modern relatives. Now a new species of saber-toothed cat has been described by paleontologists who found the ancient cat’s humerus bone among North American museum collections. It turns out there...

According to a research paper published last week in the Journal of Mammalian Evolution, this new-found specimen provides clear evidence for a diverse range of predator fauna existing during the late Miocene of the continent that included some of the biggest felids in Earths history. Credit: Roger Witter The sabre-toothed cat was part of an early evolutionary branch that went extinct roughly 10,000 years ago, where todays house cats are an entirely different evolutionary offshoot ...

Newly Discovered Giant Saber-Toothed Cat Was So Big It Hunted Rhinos by : Daniel Richardson on : 10 May 2021 13:47 James St. John/Flickr CC BY 2.0/Pixabay Researchers have found evidence of a giant saber-toothed cat in the US that would hunt rhinos. Big cats are majestic beasts but there used to be even bigger variations of the animals. Researchers found that a saber-toothed cat weighing up to 900 pounds, between 5–9 million years ago, roamed the United States. Advert The research published i...

A few million years ago, this giant saber-toothed cat hunted rhinos in North America Not your average cat. A A Some 5-9 million years ago, a bad boy called Machairodus lahayishupup roamed the open spaces in North America (pronounced Mah-CHI-rho-duss Lah-HIGH-ees-hoop-oop). It was the largest cat of its time (that we know of, at least), weighing up to 900 pounds (410 kg) and hunting pretty much everything that moved, including prey ten times larger than itself. Image credits: ...

Using detailed fossil comparison techniques, scientists have been able to identify a giant new saber-toothed cat species, Machairodus lahayishupup, which would have prowled around the open spaces of North America between 5 and 9 million years ago.   One of the biggest cats ever discovered, M. lahayishupup is estimated in this new study to have a body mass of some 274 kilograms (604 pounds) or so, and possibly even bigger. Its an ancient relative of the well-known Smilodon, the so-called sab...

A newly identified saber-toothed cat terrorized parts of North America between 5 and 9 million years ago. In addition to being a new species, it is also one of the largest cats ever discovered. Based on the analysis of several bones, researchers were able to determine that this new species – which has been named Machairodus lahayishupup – would have weighed an average of 600 pounds (272 kilograms) and would have been able to kill prey weighing as much as 6,000 pounds. They were believed to...