The boy was probably still breast-feeding, and the results reveal that the diet of his mother was "closest to that of [the now-extinct] scimitar cat, a mammoth specialist," the researchers wrote ...

The paleontologists determined the mummy is a part of the Homotherium genus − the scimitar-toothed cat family − based on comparisons to a lion cub carcass and skull. The scimitar-toothed cat ...