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Big Cat fossils in Tibet
« on: November 12, 2013, 11:18:04 PM »
Thought this was interesting....

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/worlds-oldest-big-cat-fossil-unearthed-tibet-2D11577725

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The earliest known big cat lived in what is now China between 5.9 million and 4.1 million years ago, newfound fossils of the ancient prowler suggest...

The new study also reveals that all cats diverged about 16 million years ago, about 5 million years earlier than was previously thought...

It's also fascinating to see how little cats have changed over the past several million years...

"The reason they don't change is that they are so good at what they do that they don't need to change," Meachen told LiveScience. "They're just really effective killers of prey right from the get-go."

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Re: Big Cat fossils in Tibet
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2013, 08:34:17 AM »
Or to put it another way, Mother Nature said "It ain't broke, so don't fix it."   :D
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