BABY SABER TOOTH CAT MUMMY FOUND! Meet Homotherium with Misato!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/6LWq2TJYCfAmw5XfTxJFNJ

#FossilFriday, The Midwest’s #Homotherium! A partial skullcap, the first Homotherium specimen found in Minnesota, was recovered in 2008 from Tyson Spring Cave in Fillmore County.

The find, along with a Cervalces scotti skullcap, was later published by Chris Widga and colleagues in Boreas (Widga et al., 2012).

Images courtesy of: Illinois State Museum (Facebook), Tyson Spring Cave (Website), Widga et al. (2012, Boreas), and Mather (2009, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer)
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newest episode of Common Descent is about saber teeth!

They cover everything from Smilodon to Nimravids to Gorgonopsians to fanged deer (although not Hoplitomeryx)! Even Uintatherium gets a mention. Covers recent research on why Smilodon's canines would have been visible when the mouth was closed, while Homotherium's canines would have been concealed when the mouth was closed.

https://commondescentpodcast.com/2025/03/29/episode-214-saber-teeth/

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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Homotherium

In 1826, Reverend John MacEnery found Pleistocene aged canine teeth in a cave near Devon.

In 1846, Richard Owen described those first fossils as Machairodus latidens,

In 1890, while reviewing the material, Emilio Fabrini proposed the name Homotherium, a subgenus of Machairodus.

Between 1918 and 1976 several more species of Homotherium were named

In 2014, a review recognized only one species of Homotherium in Eurasia, synonymizing the rest.