On many continents during the last ice age, typically from about 50,000 to 12,000 years ago, species of megafauna that had lived there for hundreds of thousands of years became extinct. Comparatively ...

But now, analyses of hundreds of teeth from La Brea are painting a vastly different picture of this prehistoric terror, which could weigh up to 600 pounds and sported seven-inch-long canine teeth.

A version of this story appears in the December 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the South American savanna of the Pleistocene epoch, the saber-toothed big cat Smilodon survived by ...

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The Late Pleistocene meso-megamammal (body mass > 100 kg) fauna of Sergipe is composed of giant ground sloths (Eremotherium laurillardi, Catonyx cuvieri, and an indeterminate Mylodontinae), ...

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Sandwiched between children and ageing parents a growing number of Australians are experiencing the care squeeze. The pressures are pushing some out of the workforce as carers grapple with social, ...

Aldi is recalling some frozen taquitos after reports emerged of the product containing "potential foreign material," the company said this week. The discount supermarket chain announced the recall on ...

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Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra for about 37,000 years. The carcass of a large cub estimated to be about 3 ...

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