New saber-toothed predator from Argentina suggests its lineage survived longer than believed

October 5, 2026 · 6:40 pm 1 sources

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• New saber-toothed predator from Argentina suggests its lineage survived longer than believed
  Phys.org · October 5, 2026 18:40
  In 2014, members of a local museum found fragments of an ancient fossil dating to the end of the Pliocene or early Pleistocene epoch in a seaside cliff on the Argentine pampas. They belonged to a large predator, but the only group they fit, saber-toothed marsupial relatives, had supposedly gone…