From Loyola Marymount
It's a tale that's long in tooth. But based on X-ray and other analysis of specimens trapped in the LaBrea Tar Pits and elsewhere, a researcher says that a million years ago, there was an equality of the sexes. Sort of. And among saber tooth tigers. The long extinct cats gave up their gender equality secret: They were roughly the same body and tooth size, offering excellent evidence that in life, they did not operate, say, as modern lions might with big bodied males dominating smaller females and operating in prides. The saber tooths, the study suggests, had a more equal male-female thing going on back in the day, the research suggests. Meow.
X-ray, other analysis shows male-female size similarity of extinct saber tooth tigers
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