A new saber-toothed mammal was among the first hypercarnivores
A 42-million-year-old jawbone has a gap to fit daggerlike upper teeth
![illustration of bobcat-like ancient animal prowling in a forest](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/031422_sq_hypercarnivores_feat.jpg?fit=1030%2C580&ssl=1)
A bobcat-sized species with an appetite for almost only meat — and the saberlike canine teeth and sharp slicing teeth to go after its meal — roamed what’s now San Diego some 42 million years ago, as imagined in this illustration.
San Diego Natural History Museum