Oil Workers Discover Saber-Toothed Fossils

Thursday, August 21, 2008 - 14:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South America.

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