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For many years, paleontologists have debated what these prehistoric big cats would have looked like based on their fossilized bones.

Even that small outpost is miles from the desert where a dozen paleontologists are hiking, looking for signs of long-ago life.

Normally nonconfrontational paleontologists were so wowed by their fossils that they sued to try to protect the land.

“We recently experienced the worst drought in one hundred years,” the paleontologist adds, and Montevideo was hit by a lack of potable water.

Elizabeth Freedman Fowler, a dinosaur paleontologist at Dickinson State University who was not involved in the study, agrees some of these supposedly distinct fossils could actually be different-looking specimens of the same species.