#Homotheriums

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 38: Pre-History Continued

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. Basically, I'd already moved on to human history, but I'd periodically get a pre-homin suggestion, hence the occasional random item waaay out of it's time period, rather than reopen the category.

In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[knuppitalism-with-ue]

Another #paleostream sketch

Homotherium, struggling to stay on a branch after something spooked it.

[antiqueanimals]

Restoration of the head of Homotherium serum. 1989/1990. From Terra: The Member's Magazine of The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Volume 31, No. 1. Fall 1992.

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[dinodanicus]

Here is a sketch vs final of my homotherium illustration.

[paleoart]

Too hot to bother

Homotherium, Deinotherium Early Pleistocene Africa

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[six-legged-sea-leopard]

catamount

am i the only one left?

[weaponsex]

furries and theyre BUTCH‼️

[proflambeovt]

Paleovember 2023, Homotherium! A distant relative of Smilodon with smaller fangs hid behind its lips, Homotherium was a particularly widespread cat, ranging from Africa and Europe all the way to the Americas before its extinction at the end of the Pleistocene. Unlike Smilodon, Homotherium was much more adapted for chasing and running down its prey instead of ambushing it.

[poeproductions]

Some prehistoric pals! A smilodon, a woolly rhino, and a deinonychus/homotherium hybrid! 🦴 Happy Fursuit Friday!

[pleistocene-pride]

Happy Ice Age Week: Homotherium is an extinct genus of machairodontine scimitar-toothed cat that inhabited North America, South America, Eurasia, and Africa from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene epochs around 4 million to 12,000 years ago. Making them to be one of the most widespread of all felines throughout time second only to the domestic cat. The first fossils known to belong to homotherium consisting of a partial skeleton were described in 1846 by Richard Owen as the species Machairodus latidens. It wouldn’t be until 1890 after several addition specimens where recovered that one Emilio Fabrini would determine them to be a distinct genus which he dubbed Homotherium for the Greek homos meaning same and therion meaning beast. Over the next century and a half hundreds of specimens have been recovered representing over a dozen species including: H aethiopicum,‭ ‬H crenatidens,‭ ‬H crusafonti,‭ ‬H hadarensis,‭ ‬H idahoensis,‭ ‬H ischyrus,‭ ‬H johnstoni,‭ ‬H latidens,‭ ‬H nestianus,‭ ‬H nihowanensis,‭ ‬H sainzelli,‭ ‬H serum,‭ ‬H ultimum,‭ ‬and H venezuelensis. Reaching on average 3.5ft (1.1m) tall at the shoulder and 425lbs (190kg) in weight, homotherium was around the size of a male African lion. Homotherium had shorter upper canines than other machariodonts such as Smilodon or Megantereon, but these were still longer than those of extant cats. The incisors and lower canines of Homotherium formed a powerful puncturing and gripping device, and its jaws were adapted to clamp and hold prey while inflicting damage with the canine teeth. Homotherium is notable for its unusual shape and proportions, with a comparatively compact torso and long legs. They had thick necks, large shoulders, and a sloped back giving them a profile more akin to a hyena than other big cats. These adaptations mean that Homotherium was built for energy efficient travel,‭ ‬and may have used this advantage to wear prey down in a manner similar to how wolves will constantly harass a prey animal until it collapses from exhaustion. This anatomy coupled with findings of multiple homotherium individuals found to have died together, points to Homotherium being a well adapted diurnal social pursuit/ persistence predator.

Art utilized was made by the following creators

Scimitar Toothed Cat: Michael Westbury https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/583429

Homotherium: allotyrannosaurus https://www.deviantart.com/allotyrannosaurus/art/White-Homotherium-909661018

Homotherium: Mauricio Anton

Homotherium: Julio Lacerda https://paleoart.tumblr.com/post/629421596985196544/commission-for-a-client-homotherium-latidens-and

[fishsfailureson]

Messed around with some markers earlier.

Why must I always have shitty lighting gghhh

[cris1702]

Homotherium serum

[fenyrinn]

Day 22

"Scratchy"

[antiqueanimals]

The Evolution of the Mammals. Written by L. B. Halstead. Illustration by Sergio. 1978.

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[dinodanicus]

An elderly male homotherium fresh from a kill looks for a safe place to bed down for the night. 

[paleoart]

Death & rebirth on the northern plains.

Megaloceros, Homotherium, Crocuta spelaea

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