Pleistocene Mammoth Attack (IMAGE)

Duke University

Pleistocene Mammoth Attack

Caption

A pack of saber-tooth cats (Smilodon) fight with adult Colombian mammoths over a juvenile mammoth they've felled. A new analysis by a team of biologists concludes that 'hypercarnivores' such as these working in concert could have taken down juveniles of the largest herbivores.

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Painting courtesy of Mauricio Anton

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