Cougars' diverse diet helped them survive the Pleistocene mass extinction
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 18:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Cougars may have survived the mass extinction that took place about 12,000 years ago because they were not particular about what they ate, unlike their more finicky cousins—the saber-tooth cat and American lion. Both perished along with the woolly mammoth and many of the other supersized mammals that walked the Earth during the late Pleistocene.