#i REFUSE to use the misnomers of dirk-toothed and scimitar-tooth they are INCORRECT

[six-legged-sea-leopard]

xenosmilus means “strange knife” and it’s called that because for a while there was a belief that there was a distinct divide between the bulky, long-toothed sabercats and the lean, short toothed sabercats, but the xenosmilus genus takes traits from both groups and combines them. in reality, it is closely related to the lean, short-toothed cats (its dentition is very similar), just xenosmilus was probably juicing