There were Komodo dragons, but not the array of carnivorans found elsewhere.
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This leaves us with a mystery -how did these three ancient carnivorans manage to coexist?
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And while Domingo and co-authors doubt that the carnivorans regularly scavenged, the sabercats and bear dog obviously had some interest in rotting meat.
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Out of 1,800 large mammal fossils recovered at one of these sites, about 92 percent belong to 10 different species of carnivorans of various size.