Skeletal reconstruction of the Langebaanweg sabertooth, with highlighted elements to indicate the bones examined in this study. Adapted from Mauricio Antón (2013) December 22, 2022 Sabretooth cats hunted on South Africa’s coast 5 million years ago: this old one was in pain Caitlin Bianca Rabe, University of Cape Town and Alberto Valenciano Vaquero, Universidad de Zaragoza A closer look at these fossil bones revealed more than the suggestion of a previously undescribed species - it pointed to the individual animal having suffered with osteoarthritis.
A forest cat. Captured by the project's camera trap. May 17, 2020 We wanted to know where Madagascar’s mysterious ‘forest’ cats came from. What we found Frank Cuozzo, University of Colorado Boulder and Michelle Sauther, University of Colorado Boulder The conventional view is that Madagascar has no native cats. Yet, cats are plentiful.
Predators like the cougar can spread seeds from consuming birds which eat the seeds. Shutterstock April 26, 2016 Big cats play a bigger role in plant preservation than we knew before José Hernán Sarasola, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa Carnivorous predators play an important, and until now unknown, role in preserving plant populations in the territories they inhabit.