@history.piece: For more than 35,000 years, this sabre-toothed kitten lay frozen in the Siberian permafrost. The cub was discovered in 2020 near the Badyarikha River in Yakutia, northeastern Siberia. It belonged to Homotherium latidens, an extinct species of sabre-toothed cat, and was only around three weeks old when it died. Its preservation is extraordinary. Dark brown fur still covers its body, while its whiskers, claws, paw pads and even the shape of its small ears and muzzle remain visible. Only the head and front portion of the body survived, along with some separate bones from the rear, but this was enough to give scientists something they had never had before: a direct look at what Homotherium actually looked like. Compared with a modern lion cub of the same age, it had a much thicker, more muscular neck, longer forelimbs, smaller ears and unusually broad paws. For thousands of years, our image of sabre-toothed cats came almost entirely from bones. This tiny frozen cub finally preserved the animal itself. #Paleontology #ancienthistory #permafrost #ancientdiscoveries #HistoryTime

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