{
  "id": 12211492,
  "title": "New saber-toothed predator from Argentina suggests its lineage survived longer than believed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/new-saber-toothed-predator-from-argentina-suggests-its-lineage",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-05T18:40:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-saber-toothed-predator-argentina-lineage.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "In 2014, members of a local museum found fragments of an ancient fossil dating to the end of the Pliocene or early Pleistocene epoch in a seaside cliff on the Argentine pampas. They belonged to a large predator, but the only group they fit, saber-toothed marsupial relatives, had supposedly gone extinct earlier, leaving the identity of the fossil a mystery. That was until Eric del Campo, a…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}