I think this is a brand new work from one of the world’s foremost paleoartists:
I imagine that if we could travel in time to the African Pleistocene and we encountered the sabretoothed cat Megantereon, there is a high probability that it would be busy licking its fur as fastidiouly as any extant cat. pic.twitter.com/X9e9LMjsxb
— Mauricio Anton (@MAntonPaleoart) September 8, 2023
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If you’ve read Antón’s book Sabertooth, you know that not only is Megantereon his favorite but also that Smilodon might have been one of its descendants.
Megantereon and several other feline and possibly nonfeline sabertooths didn’t make it past the end-Miocene tollbooth.
Flight To Wonder 