deformed skull that had somehow survived millennia encased in ice. Researchers identified the mummy as belonging to Homotherium latidens, also known as the scimitar-toothed cat. For the team of ...

Jackson School of Geosciences doctoral student John Moretti holds a skull of the saber-toothed cat Homotherium that is part of the Jackson School’s Vertebrate Paleontology Collections.

The paleontologists determined the mummy is a part of the Homotherium genus − the scimitar-toothed cat family − based on comparisons to a lion cub carcass and skull. The scimitar-toothed cat ...