#saber-toothed cat

[tyrannoninja]

Paleolithic Huntress and Her Pet

A Paleolithic huntress in Pleistocene Africa is showing some affection to her tame saber-toothed Megantereon. Humans may never have been able to fully domesticate any saber-toothed cats as far as we know, but I can still see some adopting cubs and raising them to be hunting companions. It would be like how people have trained lions and tigers to perform tricks in historical circuses.

[mesozoicmarket]

A partial phalange of a Smilodon fatalis or saber-toothed tiger from Taylor County, Florida, United States. These famous machairodontine cats are known for their large and finely serrated canine or saber teeth.

[palaeosinensis]

Testing out some small block print square ideas. I’ve got some rubber scraps to either use up or make stamps with.

[thetidemice]

timewindow beast

[mammoth-clangen]

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LORE TIME LORE TIME!!! (Also my favourite art so far in that last panel yay) Someone ages ago asked about their afterlife and the answer is! Well! This isn't Starclan that's for sure! Also meet Snakespots, they seem nice and not suspicious c: Good job to that Anon who guessed that Ice Fangs were another sabercat! Smilodon is present at this time and I'd be lying if i said I wasn't super excited to finally draw them >:3 Who is that getting bodied by an Ice Fang, you ask? Well, that would be telling uvu *squints* did tumblr eat the quality or are we ok??

I'm sure everything said this page is totally valid information that should be taken at face value and nothing should be questioned bc Snake and Burnet are very reliable narrators who would never go into the story and tell lies uwu-b

[skavcat]

adore your designs so much, the colors and shapes are great :3 could i please request a tigerclawstar? tysm!!

Tigerclaw > DF Tigerstar

[invaderfuzzytalon]

littlest paleo shop

(click to view higher quality!)

[matoitech]

self portrait

[makairodonx]

Another Father’s Day special - Two Smilodon population cubs romp around their huge, imposing father as the sun sets upon the grassy Pleistocene plains of what is now Brazil.

[bethanythebogwitch]

Saw this at the state fair. I thought it was a fossil but turns out it's an art project made of paper mâché. I was speechless, it looks so real. Had no idea you could do that with paper mâché.

(image: a highly realistic reconstruction of a Smilodon skull)

[jellycatstuffies]

Stellan Sabre Tooth Tiger

Ko-fi / Instagram

[tyrannoninja]

Between one million and 10,000 years ago, during the Pleistocene epoch, the Americas would have been the hunting grounds of two species of the saber-toothed cat genus Smilodon, Smilodon fatalis in North America and Smilodon populator in South America. Of the two species, S. populator would have been the larger, weighing between 500 and 900 lbs, making it one of the largest cats known to have prowled the earth. S. fatalis, on the other hand, would have been similar in dimensions to a modern lion, but more heavily built, with a mass between 350 and 620 lbs.

Although both species would have ranged far and wide and inhabited a variety of biomes in their respective continents, I wanted my depiction of the northern species to have a more “wintry” color scheme, with white spots on a gray base to blend into snowy environments. The southern species, on the other hand, would be more brown with dark spots to fit into the warmer environments of South America.

[melonlthawne]

cats are the same no matter if it’s 200,000 bc or 2024. or for those not in the know, this is my oc flint who is a Neanderthal and her inseparable partner fangs the saber tooth cat or smilodon. I love her very much

[palaeosinensis]

The Smilodon prospective oracle card.

[carciinogen]

Smilodon Populator

[deadndyingbutbetter]

A saber tooth tiger! Also referred to as smilodon. They could open their mouth up to 120 degrees wide but their huge teeth were quite fragile. This leads scientists to believe that it tackled its prey before tearing into soft tissue with the big canines. Also it’s believed they went extinct due to their reliance on big prey animals and habitat changes :(