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[ad_1] Skeleton of a “saber-toothed tiger” at the Piguet auction house. – Photo courtesy of the Piguet auction house via AFP-Relaxnews GENEVA, December 2 – A nearly 40-million-year-old skeleton of what is commonly called a saber-toothed tiger will go under the hammer next week in Geneva, a year after its …

[ad_1] In the Pleistocene era, the big cat Smilodon they roamed parts of the Americas, using blade-like teeth and ambushing to take down the megafauna. Of Fernando G. Baptista is Patricia Healy PUBLISHED November 30, 2020 A version of this story appears in the December 2020 issue of National Geographic …