This was something far rarer, almost mythic: a saber-toothed cat cub, frozen in time for 37,000 years ... cub with the remains of a three-week-old lion cub for context, but this ancient predator ...

In order to create these biological time capsules ... leading researchers to believe the saber-toothed cat was around three weeks old when it died. At first glance, the Homotherium’s fur ...