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Meet the newly discovered species Militocodon lydae: Thought to be about the size of a rat and weighing up to 455 grams or 16 ounces, this small mammal is the likely ancestor of all modern hoofed animals, called ungulates.

The recent discussion of Caperea's skeletal morphology (Caperea = Pygmy right whale) inspired Joy Reidenberg to send these photos of a Caperea skeleton, taken in New Zealand and used here with her permission.

A new subspecies of common bottlenose dolphin found only in the tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been identified by researchers. An analysis of several specimens conducted by Ana Costa — a marine researcher with the Rosenstiel...

"The specimens in this subspecies are one of the smallest common bottlenose dolphins found," marine researcher Ana Costa said.

As some of you might know, all of my 'free' time last month was eaten up by a major project (a book chapter) that had a very tight deadline. This meant no time whatsoever for such stuff as blog-writing, hence the (mostly) recycled babirusa stuff. That project is now (mostly!) complete, but I'm still struggling for time due to other projects and jobs. Meanwhile, I thought I'd recycle this...

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...

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 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...

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