Implications of diet for the extinction of saber-toothed cats and American lions.

The saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, and American lion, Panthera atrox, were among the largest terrestrial carnivores that lived during the Pleistocene, going extinct along with other megafauna ∼12,000 years ago. Previous work suggests that times were difficult at La Brea (California) during the...

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Auteurs principaux: Larisa R G Desantis, Blaine W Schubert, Jessica R Scott, Peter S Ungar
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Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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