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Abstract The frozen mummy of the large felid cub was found in the Upper Pleistocene permafrost on the Badyarikha River (Indigirka River basin) in the northeast of Yakutia, Russia. The study of the specimen appearance showed its significant differences from a modern lion cub of similar age (three weeks) in the unusual shape of the muzzle with a large mouth opening and small ears, the very massive neck region, the elongated forelimbs, and the dark coat color. Tomographic analysis of the mummy skull revealed the features characteristic of Machairodontinae and of the genus Homotherium. For the first time in the history of paleontology, the appearance of an extinct mammal that has no analogues in the modern fauna has been studied. For more read here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-79546-1

[img id] Digital cel-shaded artwork of a saber-toothed tiger (smilodon) parent picking up its kitten by the nape of the neck with its mouth, as cats do. The kitten appears to be a little unsure of itself, as anyone would be with a giant curved canine right near their throat. The parent has no intent to harm its baby, it's just trying to move the child from one place to another. Sabertooth tigers tend to be stockier than most modern big cats, with a bigger head. These two big cats in particular have been rendered with countershading: Light tan underbellies, and an orange coat that fades into sunset-like reds and purples. Leopard-like spots mark the cat’s shoulders but fade towards the short stubby tail and belly. The scene is posed on top of an isometric chunk of grassland at sunset, when everything takes on golden shadows. A small, windblown sagebrush bush rests at the front paw of the smilodon. [/id]

About 2.4 billion years ago, oxygen-making bacteria changed Earth forever. Their oxygen poisoned many early microbes and helped destroy methane, a warming gas. That may have helped trigger long Snowball-Earth-like ice ages that lasted, with warmer breaks, around 300 million years.

I'm a bit late but I wanted to make something based off the frozen homotherium cub found last year.

Few people are aware that giant ground sloths created equally giant burrows, large enough for a grown man to stand in.

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