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Saber-toothed lemming fossils rewrite evolution



From: Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


OK--another non-dino news story. However, the recent discovery of a
Cretaceous saber-toothed dryolestoid "squirrel" Cronopio from
Argentina demonstrates that the evolution of enlarged stabbing teeth
is not limited to strict carnivores.


http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/04/ice-age-ankle-biters.html