Prehistoric Saber-Tooth Cub Is First to Be Found Mummified in Ice – and it Still Has Hair

nnDespite hundreds of scientific illustrations, no one knew for sure what a saber-toothed cat actually looked like, until now.nnAs is sometimes the case, Siberian prospectors looking for mammoth tusks, likely illicitly, have uncovered another incredible Pleistocene mammal frozen in permafrost—in this instance, a “saber-tooth kitten.”nnBelonging to the species Homotherium latidens, paleontologists at the Russian Academy of […]

Good News in History, November 22

59 years ago today Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees, a National Geographic film special, premiered on CBS and brought the young primate ethnologist Jane Goodall international acclaim for her work in Tanzania. It transformed our understanding of our closest relative as no piece of media had ever done before. READ a bit more, or watch […]