(CNN) — A mummified ice age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a saber-toothed cat, and its discovery is generating ripples of excitement among paleontologists. The mummy’s exceptional ...

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Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. But today’s researchers can only hope to find fossils that will shed more light on the existence of these ...

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