A multi-million-year predator niche has been empty for the last 11,000 years. We should be celebrating that fact. Instead, if safety could be guaranteed, who wouldn’t want to go see a live sabertoothed cat at the zoo?
If . . .
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?
Homotherium was the more successful of the two ice-age sabertoothed cats, but it’s also more of a mystery.
As scary as Smilodon cats must have been, something terribly beautiful left the world when they finally disappeared.
The reason why there never could have been a “sabertoothed tiger” in real life.
