Pleistocene diet: tough on teeth. (carnivore teeth indicate food difficult to find during last ice age) (Brief Article)

Science News | July 31, 1993| | Copyright

For a predator, dinner is always catch as catch can. But the saber-toothed cats and other large carnivores living in America at the end of the last ice age had a particularly difficult time finding enough food, according to a study of teeth preserved in the tar pits of Los Angeles' Rancho La Brea. The preponderance of jaws with broken teeth suggests that carnivores back then had to crunch on bones or pick them clean in order to get their fill.

Blaire Van Valkenburgh and Fritz Hertel of the University of California, Los Angeles, analyzed specimens dating from the late ...

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