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  • A saber toothed squirrel?!

    Wow, scientists working in Argentina have found fossil evidence of a "saber toothed squirrel".

    The animal is reminiscent of Scrat, the fictional character from the film Ice Age, but the find is important scientifically because it closes a 60-million-year gap in the mammalian fossil record of South America.
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    I saw a news crawl about this during some program and meant to check it out. I'm going to try and find a photo of it.
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    • #3
      I heard saber tooth cats were the "parents" of all big cats today

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
        I heard saber tooth cats were the "parents" of all big cats today
        Where you hear that from? The big cats are of the subfamily pantherinae, while Smilodon was of subfamily machairodontinae. The break between the ancestors of, let's say, tigers and smilodons, occurred before smilodons appeared.
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        • #5
          But they're all 100% tiger.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by Elok View Post
            But they're all 100% tiger.


            You all are ill-informed if you deny that dogs are genetically identical to wolves. They've only been separated for about 12,000 years and mapping of the canine genome supports my position. Dogs and wolves are the same species (Canis Lupus).
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
              Where you hear that from? The big cats are of the subfamily pantherinae, while Smilodon was of subfamily machairodontinae. The break between the ancestors of, let's say, tigers and smilodons, occurred before smilodons appeared.
              a documentary on the Younger Dryas mass extinction in N America said modern big cats came from the saber cats

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post


                  You all are ill-informed if you deny that dogs are genetically identical to wolves. They've only been separated for about 12,000 years and mapping of the canine genome supports my position. Dogs and wolves are the same species (Canis Lupus).
                  WTF ?
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
                    a documentary on the Younger Dryas mass extinction in N America said modern big cats came from the saber cats
                    With the exception of jaguars, modern big cats don't even live in North America. (cougars are not panthera)

                    DNA analysis published in 2005 confirmed and clarified cladistic analysis in showing that the Machairodontinae diverged early from the ancestors of modern cats and are not closely related to any living feline species.[2] Sabertooths also coexisted in many places together with conical-toothed cats. In Africa and Eurasia, sabertooths competed with several pantherines and cheetahs until the early or middle Pleistocene. Homotherium survived in Northern Europe even until the late Pleistocene. In the Americas they coexisted together with the cougar, American lion, American cheetah, and jaguar until the late Pleistocene. Saber-toothed and conical-toothed cats competed with each other for food resources, until the last of the former became extinct. All recent felids have more or less conical-shaped upper canines.
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                    • #11
                      ...and if you're simply mapping genomes, humans and bananas are almost identical.

                      Albie is about 80% banana.
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                      • #12
                        Fine, it's the remaining 20 % that worries me
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                          The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris[3] and Canis lupus dingo[1][2]) is a domesticated form of the gray wolf
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                          "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View Post
                            With the exception of jaguars, modern big cats don't even live in North America. (cougars are not panthera)
                            dont matter, horses and camels went extinct in NA too but they migrated to the old world.

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                            • #15
                              Tigers/Lions/Leopards did not evolve from Smilodons!
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                              "I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi

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