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Sadly, FR returns "This account has been banned or suspended" to both Sabertooth's FRName and some of the images posted herein.

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However -- here's a discovery, directly related to the literal subject of the article:

I, out of boredom, am reading the November, 1985 National Geographic (the one with the holograph of a hominid skull on the cover). In it, all of pages 606 & 607 are devoted to the skull of a young hominid, who, evidently, was grabbed by the head by a Sabertooth, dragged up into a tree and devoured.

The remains -- including the skull, with paired, round holes -- matching the lower canines of a nearby sabertooth skull...fell into the Swartkrans cave, excavations of which are shown on p. 606.

But p. 707 illustrates how the sabertooth's upper canines pierced the hominid/s eye sockets -- while the lower canines puched the distinct holes in the back of the skull.

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What a weird coincidence: for you to post this article from a now-defunct FReeper -- and for me to be reading the Nat Geo article that illustrates it beautifully!