{"id":120826,"date":"2019-05-31T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/fossils-reveal-saber-toothed-cats-may-have-pierced-rivals-skulls\/"},"modified":"2019-05-31T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T18:50:14","slug":"fossils-reveal-saber-toothed-cats-may-have-pierced-rivals-skulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/fossils-reveal-saber-toothed-cats-may-have-pierced-rivals-skulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossils reveal saber-toothed cats may have pierced rivals skulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saber-toothed cats may sometimes have wielded their formidable canine teeth as deadly weapons to puncture the skulls of rival cats.<\/p>\n

It was already suspected that Smilodon<\/em> cats used their huge canines to take down prey<\/a>, perhaps by ripping out the preys throat (SN: 3\/30\/19, p. 20<\/em>). But some researchers argued that the daggerlike teeth, which could grow up to 28 centimeters long in the largest species, were too thin and fragile to puncture bone without breaking.<\/p>\n

But a new analysis of two skulls from Smilodon populator<\/em>, a saber-toothed cat species that prowled what is now South America, contests that idea, says a team of Argentinian researchers led by Nicol\u00e1s Chimento. Large puncture holes in the top of the fossil skulls match the size and shape of canines<\/a> of saber-toothed cats, the researchers report online in the May Comptes Rendus Palevol<\/em>. Similar injuries are sometimes seen in the skulls of living cats, such as leopards, jaguars and cheetahs, the authors write.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmilodon<\/em> canines were strong enough to penetrate bone and were formidable hunting weapons,\u201d says Chimento, a paleontologist at the Bernardino Rivadavia Argentine Natural Science Museum in Buenos Aires. The skull wounds were probably made during tussles while \u201cfighting for territorialiRead More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a>
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