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April 23, 2014

Cougars may have survived the ice age because of diverse diet.

NSF-funded researchers discover that cougars' diverse diet helped them survive mass extinction that wiped out the saber-tooth cat, American lion.

Credit: Image credit: Blaine Schubert; Video produced by Dena Headlee/NSF


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