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‘Sabre-toothed tiger’ skeleton sells for $70,000 – Yahoo News Australia
A nearly 40-million-year-old skeleton belonging to what is popularly called a sabre-toothed tiger has sold for almost $70,000, a year after its discovery on …
A nearly 40-million-year-old skeleton belonging to what is popularly called a sabre-toothed tiger has sold for almost $70,000, a year after its discovery on a US ranch.
The skeleton, about 120 centimetres (nearly four feet) long, was snapped up by a private collector in just one minute at an auction in Geneva on Tuesday.
The original bones are those of a Hoplophoneus — not technically cats, they are an extinct genus of the Nimravidae family and once stalked the plains of North America.
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