Double-fanged specimen from La Brea Tar Pits (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Double-fanged specimen from La Brea Tar Pits

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A portion of the right maxilla of a saber-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, showing a fully erupted baby saber tooth with the adult tooth just erupting. Based on Tseng's tooth eruption timing table, he estimates that the animal was between 12 and 19 months of age at the time of death. The fossil is from the La Brea Tar Pits and is housed at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

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Jack Tseng, UC Berkeley

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