A University of Nebraska paleontology crew found a twenty-five-million-year-old sabertooth cat only a few miles from here, one of the more unusual paleontological discoveries ever made in Nebraska, with one of its sabers thrust through the upper arm bone of another sabertooth so that both animals died locked together in combat. Among the crew at the site was Loren Eiseley, a Lincoln native and young University of Nebraska student who took part in the University-sponsored South Party, or Morrill Paleontological Expedition, during the summers of 1931, 1932, and 1933 under Dr. E. H. Barbour. Eiseley received his degree from the University of Nebraska in 1933, earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1937, taught in Kansas and Ohio for ten years, and then joined the University of Pennsylvania faculty, where he served as chairman of the anthropology department from 1947 until his death in 1977 at age seventy. He later achieved fame as an anthropologist, literary naturalist, author, and philosopher, and in 1973 published the poem The Innocent Assassins about the western Nebraska sabertooth find. Author of thirteen books, he is also known for The Immense Journey, The Night Country, The Firmament of Time, and The Unexpected Universe. The sabertooth fossil found by the South Party in 1932 is displayed at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall, Lincoln.