Other Mammal Fossils

from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

(These fossils were recovered from sites in L.A. County. Yes, even the camels.)

A sabertooth cat attacking a small North American rhinoceros.

Ground sloth

Camels. Like other ruminants such as sheep and cattle, they have no upper incisors.

The short-legged rhino

Dinictis, an ancient cat, chowing down on an entelodont. Despite its impressive dental array, the entelodont was a piglike plant-eater.