Researchers Discover Pocket-Size Fossilized Jawbone of a Cat Deep Inside Cave Where Early Humans Lived 300,000 Years Ago Scientists uncovered the fossil remains of a tiny feline species, that was ...
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Why the cat was in the cave is a mystery. Aged between 275,000 and 300,000 years ago, it would have existed at the same time as ancient humans, whose remains also turned up in the Hualongdong Cave.
BEIJING -- Archaeologists have unearthed the tiniest known cat fossil at an ancient human site in East ... of Sciences unearthed the fossil from a cave at the Hualongdong site in East China's ...
"The food scraps of ancient people at Hualongdong site might have lured rats and those small leopard cats as well," said Jiangzuo Qigao from the IVPP, the first author of the paper. "It's unclear ...