Oldest Saber-Toothed Mammalian Ancestor Found in Mallorca

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270 million-year-old saber-toothed predator from 'ghost' lineage looked like a bald dog

Fossils of the oldest saber-toothed predator are helping researchers understand the evolution of early mammal relatives called gorgonopsians and our shared origins in the therapsid group.

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A good number of ancient fossils have been found on the beautiful island of Mallorca in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, which belonged to the gorgonops, relatives of the ancestors of mammals.

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Fossil of Oldest Dog-Like Saber-Toothed Animal Predating Dinosaurs Found

Archaeologists have discovered the fossil of the oldest saber-toothed animal predating the dinosaurs. Credits: Illustration by Henry Sutherland Sharpe, CC BY 4.0, Nature. Archaeologists have discovered the fossil of the oldest saber-toothed animal dating back to the time before the dinosaurs’ existence. This prehistoric saber-toothed animal looked somewhat like a dog and walked the Earth around 270 to 280 million years ago. The fossil is of what…

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The world’s oldest ‘sabre-tooth’

An international team of palaeontologists has unearthed in Banyalbufar, Mallorca, the fossil remains of a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsid, the world’s oldest ‘sabre-tooth’. The discovery, published in the journal Nature Communications, is the first discovery of a therapsid – a group of prehistoric animals that evolved to give rise to today’s mammals – in the Mediterranean region. Source

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To the surprise of experts, scientists have found an evolutionary second cousin of the first mammal in Mallorca. Never come before...

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It is more than 270 million years old, it lived on the supercontinent Pangea (ANSA)