Oldest Saber-Toothed Creature Found, Rewriting the Story of Mammal Evolution

An extinct carnivorous group known as gorgonopsians, which lived between 270 and 250 million years ago, laid eggs and had saber teeth. Recent findings in Mallorca suggest the discovery of the oldest gorgonopsian, featuring unique limb anatomy indicative of efficient locomotion. Gorgonopsians were an extinct group of synapsids that lived during the Permian period, between [...]

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