Meet Homotherium (in 3D, possible Arctic coat), a/k/a the other sabertoothed cat. A 19th-century taxonomist gave this fossil feline its name — homo, “same,” and
Category: Sabertoothed cats
Sabertoothed Cats: The Miocene Bridge
Combine a lion and a bear and give the resulting animal a set of these choppers. Congratulations! You have just glimpsed Barbourofelis frickii, the biggest
Sabertoothed Cats: Before Felidae
Fossils, even awesome ones like that, can be disconcerting. They remind us that nothing lasts forever, that almost all species that have ever lived are
Sabertoothed Cats: An Introduction
The lion-sized cat turned its back on a sunlit Pleistocene world of dry, open woodlands and padded into its den one last time. Although hungry,
Repost: Nimravides and the Metailurini
Nimravides and the Metailurini. It sounds like a rock band, but these were once two real and very different types of long-fanged big cat
Repost: “False” sabertooths and real sabercats
Does it matter if the ferocious sabertooth that’s about to attack you lacks the right bone structure to convince scientists it’s a cat?
