Scientists celebrate Page County sabertooth skull discovery
(Ames) -- You could call it the Holy Grail of prehistoric predator fossils--and it was found in Page County. Dave Easterla, distinguished universit...
(Ames) -- You could call it the Holy Grail of prehistoric predator fossils--and it was found in Page County. Dave Easterla, distinguished university professor emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, and Matthew Hill, associate professor of archeology at Iowa State University, announce recent findings associated with the discovery of a sabertooth cat skull in Page County. Hill says the skull was found in an area along the East Nishnabotna River in 2017. He says it's the first evidence of a sabertooth cat in Iowa.