South America's sabre-toothed thylacosmilids were thought extinct by the mid-to-late Pliocene. But bones found in Argentina show a new species, larger than a jaguar, lived on, long enough to encounter predators moving in from the north. archaeologyteahouse.com/stories/wres...
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Wrestler of the Pampas: South America's Saber-Toothed Predator That Outlived Its Own Supposed Extinction — Archaeology Teahouse
Postcranial remains from Miramar, Argentina, extend the thylacosmilid record into the early Pleistocene and suggest overlap with North American carnivores arriving in South America.
