{"id":126399,"date":"2024-11-16T05:54:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126399"},"modified":"2024-11-16T05:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T22:54:35","slug":"35000-year-old-frozen-saber-toothed-cat-mummy-studied-for-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126399","title":{"rendered":"35,000-year-old frozen saber-toothed cat mummy studied for first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Calling all &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; lovers: The frozen remains of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cat have been studied for the first time in history, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-79546-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The animal&#8217;s mummified remains, which include its head, arms and part of its chest, were found well-preserved in Yakutia, Russia, in 2020 and determined to belong to a cub around 3 weeks old, per the study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The young cub&#8217;s most notable characteristics are its small ears, long neck and front arms, dark brown fur, and large mouth opening, the study authors wrote. When compared with the remains of a modern lion cub of a similar age, it was determined that the cat mummy shared characteristics with the subfamily Machairodontinae, specifically the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/saber-toothed-cat#ref1065969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homotherium genus<\/a> \u2014 cats with sharp, curved saber teeth that existed around 12 million to 10,000 years ago in North America and Europe.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"styles_inlineImage__yAWZ0 styles_medium__OMa6x styles_portrait__NRWbO\"><picture class=\"styles_image__1qciH\" data-testid=\"picture\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1000px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241115-Mummy-of-a-juvenile-sabre-toothed-cat-ew-1243p-060e5b.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-560w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241115-Mummy-of-a-juvenile-sabre-toothed-cat-ew-1243p-060e5b.jpg 1x\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 320px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_avif,q_auto:eco,dpr_2\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241115-Mummy-of-a-juvenile-sabre-toothed-cat-ew-1243p-060e5b.jpg 2x, https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241115-Mummy-of-a-juvenile-sabre-toothed-cat-ew-1243p-060e5b.jpg 1x\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-11\/241115-Mummy-of-a-juvenile-sabre-toothed-cat-ew-1243p-060e5b.jpg\" alt=\"A. shows the frozen mummy and B. shows Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758), a modern lion cub's remains.\" height=\"1553\" width=\"1048\"\/><\/picture><figcaption class=\"caption styles_caption__Pe5JC\" data-testid=\"caption\"><span class=\"caption__container\" data-testid=\"caption__container\">A. shows the frozen mummy and B. shows Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758), a modern lion cub&#8217;s remains.<\/span><span class=\"caption__source\" data-testid=\"caption__source\">Lopatin, A.V., Sotnikova, M.V., Klimovsky, A.I. et al.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Compared with the modern lion cub&#8217;s remains, the Homotherium cat&#8217;s ears are up higher on the skull, and its mouth opening is about 11% to 19% larger, according to the study. Its neck is also &#8220;longer and more than twice as thick&#8221; as the modern cub&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; movie franchise fans, the description of the saber-toothed cat might sound familiar. The character Diego, a saber-toothed tiger, has very similar traits to the 35,000-year-old cub. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This marks the first time remains of this kind have been studied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cFor 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,\u201d the study authors wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The study&#8217;s corresponding author did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/science-news\/35000-year-old-frozen-saber-toothed-cat-mummy-studied-first-time-ever-rcna180339\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calling all &#8220;Ice Age&#8221; lovers: The frozen remains of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cat have been studied for the first time in history, according to a study published Thursday in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126399\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}