Palaeontology
Sabretooth cats threatened ancient humans
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T.K. RandallJanuary 4, 2011 ·
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Our ancestors would have likely been under constant danger from huge sabretooth cats.
Primitive humans would have needed to give these predators a wide berth in order to avoid an untimely end however there is also evidence that they may have benefited from sabretooths as well by scrounging meat from the remains of large herbivorous mammals that the cats hunted and killed as prey.
Humankind's oldest known ancestor probably lived in fear of several large sabretooth cats that roamed the same ancient lakeside habitat in Africa. Palaeontologists have identified two new sabretooth species among fossils unearthed at Toros Menalla in Chad.
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BBC News |
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