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https://news.sky.com/story/frozen-sabre-toothed-kitten-reveals-significant-differences-with-modern-lion-cub-13254961

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 days ago

Not a scientist, but I think the BFD is that it's 30k years old from a completely extinct branch of animals (unlike mammoths which are closely related to modern elephants) and the thing they found was a frozen tundra mummy not a fossil so it has soft tissue and stuff unlike other extinct animals we typically observe via fossils like dinosaurs