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  1. Cave Lions, Not Tigers, Inhabited Japanese Archipelago in Late Pleistocene

    New science shows big cats in ancient Japan were cave lions, not tigers. This changes what we know about animals long ago.

    #CaveLions, #AncientJapan, #FossilDiscovery, #Paleontology, #BigCats

    newsletter.tf/cave-lions-japan

  2. Scientists have found that big cats living in Japan a long time ago were cave lions. Fossils thought to be tigers were actually lions. This helps us understand ancient animal life better.

    #CaveLions, #AncientJapan, #FossilDiscovery, #Paleontology, #BigCats

    newsletter.tf/cave-lions-japan

  3. A team of palaeontologists led by Southern Methodist University has discovered over 260 footprints of Early Cretaceous dinosaurs in Brazil and Cameroon. These findings reveal where land-dwelling dinosaurs were last able to freely cross between South America and Africa before the continents split apart millions of years ago. #paleontology #dinosaurs #science #fossildiscovery #creataceous #geology #africa #southamerica #greatread

    sci.news/paleontology/gondwana