Saber-toothed Cats

We might find a cave bear at home in it.

In that case, we should probably spend the night in a stomach, and I am sure that would be too crowded to be comfortable.' "'We can spend the night on the ground, surely,' said Limberleg, "'or we might wake up in the stomach of old Sabretooth instead.' this was just their way of joking because i never heard of any one waking up after being swallowed except jonah and little red riding hood's grandmother and of course this story happened long before either jonah or red riding hood or her grandmother did hawkeye took out his flint knife i almost said he took it out of his pocket because it seems queer to think of a man without pockets Of course, he didn't really have any, though.

The flint knife was fastened to his belt by a thong.

Go and find all the grape vines you can, he said.

But we have an interesting phenomenon taking place in Africa at the same time that humans are evolving.

So there are true saber-tooths that are scattered around the entire world two million years ago, Smilodon fatalis being the most iconic of them, because if you ever see any reconstructions of a saber-tooth cat, you'll see these big scimitar-shaped teeth that are extending well down from their palates, and they are preying on a wooly mammoth.

The presence of true saber-tooths imply the presence of false saber-tooths, and these belong to a separate lineage of carnivore cats, but who independently evolved long canine teeth.

So it's the reason why we use the term false saber-tooth, although we'd equally just refer to them as either dirk-toothed cats, so that a dirk is a type of dagger, so it's like a dagger-toothed cat, or we'll oftentimes just refer to the genus name, which is Dinofelis, or the terrible cat.

That's why cavemen started telling stories in the first place.

We need to know that Sabretooth Tiger is bad.

Stay away from Sabretooth Tiger.

He came over and ate my wife.

Don't pet the Sabretooth Tiger.

That's why stories exist.

I love it.

Who cares? And we're in the Eocene.

See if they have a Smilodon in here.

Otherwise, it's probably it for this video portion.

They explain more of how fossils are made.

I thought I recorded something about this.

Apparently, I was wrong.

And driving through the ages, there's finally we got a Smilodon.

And there is, of course, the Eohippus from Gwangi.

It was something that wanted to kill you.

It was Sabretooth Tiger, I don't know.

Don't ask me about 300,000 years ago.

Something wanted to kill you.

We've been low man on the totem pole.

We're little, tiny little freaking ape dudes running around getting eaten by short-faced bears or freaking Smilodon or terror birds or, um, freaking giant hyenas.

Like, we've always been running away and being like, "Oh God, this sucks to be..." Like, we were not anywhere near the top of the food chain for a vast majority of our evolution-

Yes

First of all, saber-toothed tigers were not actually tigers.

They were a species called Smilodon fatalis belonging to a separate branch of the cat family that deserved, excuse me, diverges from the ancestors of modern lions and tigers millions of years earlier.

Saber tooth, the name smilodon literally means knife or scalpel and tooth, right? So smile otis is the root words.

Their canine teeth could reach nearly a foot long.

We also think of them hunting Ice Age animals, bison, horses, mastodons, sloths.

Again, the Ice Age movie associations.

We have seen some places, the La Brea Tar Pits most prominently, where there have been over 2,000 individual Smilodon skeletons in one place.

The animals may have lived socially.