"Extinct kitten-sized hunter discovered" Topic
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| Tango01 | 08 May 2014 10:46 p.m. PST |
"A Case Western Reserve University student and his mentor have discovered an ancient kitten-sized predator that lived in Bolivia about 13 million years ago -- one of the smallest species reported in the extinct order Sparassodonta. Third-year undergraduate student Russell Engelman and Case Western Reserve anatomy professor Darin Croft made the finding by analyzing a partial skull that had been in a University of Florida collection more than three decades. The researchers report their finding in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. "The animal would have been about the size of a marten, a catlike weasel found in the Northeastern United States and Canada, and probably filled the same ecological niche," said Engelman, an evolutionary biology major from Russell Township, Ohio…"
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Armand |
 20thmaine  | 09 May 2014 2:20 a.m. PST |
Kitten sized predators still stalk the globe – they're called kittens.  |
| jpattern2 | 09 May 2014 6:00 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 09 May 2014 11:27 a.m. PST |
Ha!Ha!Ha!
Good one 20thMaine!! Amicalement
Armand |
| capncarp | 12 May 2014 4:15 p.m. PST |
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