A special volume of the journal Estudios Geológicos published in memory of French paleontologist Leonard Ginsburg has just been published. It includes several contributions on mammal evolution and anatomy coauthored by Mauricio. One of these papers, titled “Changing ideas about the evolution and functional morphology of Machairodontine felids” is one of the last collaborations with great paleontoligst and friend Alan Turner, who sadly passed away last January. This paper is an overview of the evolution of sabretooth cats which, while being undeniably technical, is written in a way that can be accesible to non-specialists who want a serious update on the subject. Alan lives on in our memories and in his vast contribution to academic and general knowledge about the evolution of carnivores and their world. This paper is just one example. You can access PDF format files of all the contributions to this volume in the following link:

http://estudiosgeol.revistas.csic.es/index.php/estudiosgeol.

On february the 15th Spanish Nacional TV channel “TVE 2” special episode of  the series “Biodiario”, devoted to the work of Mauricio. The programme is created with the usual expertise of Luis Miguel Dominguez and his team from “Avatar Producciones”, who have protraited in just 5 minutes the essentials of Mauricio’s work, and especially of his reconstructions of sabre-toothed predators. You can watch the video (entirely in Spanish) following this link:

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/biodiario/biodiario---15-02-12/1323429/

The popular book on prehistoric mammals by Alan Turner and Mauricio Anton has just been translated into Italian. Since the publication of the original English version entitled “National Geographic Book of Prehistoric Mammals” in 2004, the book has been translated into 12 languages. The Italian version is published also by National Geographic, under the title “Mammiferi Prehistorici"

Mauricio has completed a video chronicle of his trip to Samburu reserve in Kenya in 2010. This is a quick portrait of one of the most beautiful wildlife reserves in Africa, and a celebration of the uiltimate big cat: the leopard. First-handr observations of the big cats in the wild help Mauricio to create more believable and life-like reconstructions of their extinct relatives, including the sabretooths. You can watch the video here