Uruguay’s first Pleistocene fossil cubs

2025/07/03 by Jack A. Cooper · 1 voice
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Evolution and Paleontology Studies #Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology #Primate Behavior and Ecology

paper · doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2529106

openalex publication_date 2025/07/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

The Felidae – or as the layperson knows them as: cats – first originated somewhere between 35 and 28 million years ago; at latest by the early Oligocene (Werdelin et al., 2010) and have been moving...

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