X-rays show how periods of stress changed an ice age hyena to the bone
Wednesday, November 14, 2018 - 08:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A few hundred thousand years ago during Earth's most recent ice age, a beefy subspecies of spotted hyena that was more than double the weight of its modern relative roamed Eurasia's snow-glazed terrain. Until their extinction about 11,000 years ago, these animals, now known as cave hyenas, would drag their prey into dens and devour them with bone-crushing jaws.