#smilodon fatalis

[mammoth-clangen]

Behold! Big Kitties!

I wanted to make one of these for fun mostly, also because I wanted to slightly update how I draw the Fleets to fit the Homotherium mummy; mostly in the lack of carpal pads and that brown is the wildtype colour uvu

Notes that didn't fit:

- Eye colours can be anything natural-looking except in Ice Fangs, which are always blue (that's actually where their name comes from)

- None of the colour variants are sexually dimorphic (though some may be sex linked)

- All species can be fluffier than shown here (especially in winter), I just shaved them here to show the varied anatomy

- All the cats probably have a melanistic and albino variant but there aren't any in Kindred so I didn't include them

- I'm never gonna draw the characters in Kindred with detailed patterns as shown here, that would take 554637 hours per page cx

Don't @ me about paleo inaccuracies bc there's a lot of intentional exaggerations e.g. how variable they can be, for the sake of making characters actually fun to work with + the Tuft Tails are basically just lions because their skeletal anatomy is sooooo similar but bigger (and lions are pretty)

Image ID

"Kindred of the Mammoth- Pleistocene big cats"

Fleet Fang- Homotherium serum.

Tireless hunters of the steppe.

Male: Tom

Female: Molly

Nonbinary: Motte

Young: Cub

Grouping: Kindred

A drawing in a slightly more realistic style than Kindred of a brown Fleet Fang with green eyes and extensive barring running down her sides. There is a headshot of a tom with shaggy grey and white fur, who has his mouth open in a slight pant to show dental anatomy.

Notes read:

"Inverted neck hackle

Patterns run laterally.

Tufted ears

Heart-shaped nose.

All teeth are serrated

No carpal pad

Claws don't retract fully

Skin usually dull pink

Paler under-tail

No sexual dimorphism

Huge incisors, tiny lower canines

Tundra morphs shaggy and pale grey"

There are a few natural variants shown as well: dilute few spots, joined-barring (lateral stripes instead of broken spots), Open-saddle ginger, melanistic with paler grey markings.

Ice Fang- Smilodon fatalis ssp.

Powerful hunters of the north.

Male: Boar

Female: Sow

Nonbinary: Urs

Young: Cub

Grouping: Sounder

A drawing in a slightly more realistic style than Kindred of a white, grey striped Ice Fang with blue eyes . There is a headshot of a boar with pale golden fur and a darker beard under his neck. He has his mouth open in a slight pant to show dental anatomy.

Notes read:

False eyes on small ears

Powerful neck/shoulders

Vertical stripes

Very short tail

Bear-like lower lip

Only sabers are serrated

Very large dewclaws

Skin usually dull pink/brown

Boars have a goat-like 'beard'.

Wide nose, sideways nostrils.

Huge incisors, tiny lower canines.

There are a few natural variants shown as well: Faded stripes with a pale warm grey coat, Few stripes only on the shoulders and rump, Tawny morph with broken stripes (they form vertical bars), Abundism- heavy stripes that are interlocking and covering the whole body.

Tuft Tail- Panthera leo atrox

Coordinated hunters of the plains.

Male: Lion

Female: Lioness

Nonbinary: Leo

Young: Cub

Grouping: Pride

A drawing in a slightly more realistic style than Kindred of a golden tawny Tuft tail (lioness) with amber eyes. There is a headshot of a lion with greyish fur and a tawny underbelly. He also has a darker mane around his neck. He has his mouth open in a slight pant to show dental anatomy.

Notes read:

Larger ears

Long, flexible spine

Nose darkens with age

Robust non-serrated teeth

Dark pawpads

Patternless or faintly spotted

Long, tufted tail

Lions have a mane (but less full than African Lions)

Lions much heavier than lionesses.

There are a few natural variants shown as well: Completely spottless warm grey with a tawny underbelly, orxy type dark markings that outline the paler underbelly, retained juvenile spots and a reddish tint, fully grey morph that is entirely desaturated.

A note at the bottom reads: Kindred of the Mammoth, art, and these speculative depictions belong to PencilPavlova [END ID]

[makairodonx]

Smilodon fatalis may be one of the top rulers of Pleistocene North America, preying upon bison, camels, ground sloths, mastodons and horses…but of all the dangers it must avoid…is a male Columbian Mammoth high on musth, attacking and mauling other creatures in its path, including other mammoths, in its frequent rampages of pumped-up testosterone…

[extinctcreaturesdaily]

today's daily is: the smilodon! (smilodon fatalis)

( requested by anon :] )

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[funnyhyena]

Smilodon fatalis simba for my au

[tysonfurybattlepass]

Trick or treat :3

you get this smilodon fatalis tooth development chart!

(sorry for the poor image quality on this one; these are actually screencapped from a video in which i was yammering inanely about them because i was so excited. you don’t want to sit through that just for these, trust me.)

saberkittens had baby sabers! milk sabers! we think that having a temporary pair of sabers as juveniles helped the kittens learn how to use them safely before they got their permanent set. (having two sabers in one socket also makes the whole affair sturdier and more resistant to breaking, which is a bonus for the rowdy younger cats.) if a toddler cat messes up and breaks his tooth, no worries; he’ll grow a new one by the time momma kicks him out on his own. Hopefully by then he will have learned to be more careful with the new set…

here’s a better shot of the sub-adult and adult that i found online.

[awesomechipz]

Been really into Amber Isle recently so I split my Cat/Ankylosaur fursona into two shop keeper brothers who have different ideas on how the shop should be run!

[puppetdaily]

Callie from La Brea Tar Pits

[fangthroat]

i’ve been happy seeing other smilodon fatalis kintypes. i love thinking about rolling around in the grass and the sounds of grassy fields and birds milling in the air. mutual grooming w the pride/pack. play fighting as adolescents and learning to hunt down prey together with my clan brothers and sisters 🩶🩶🩶 sharing a fresh kill and licking our paws clean

[southernlakes]

I made some saber toothed shiros to match hare!Keith. It was a tough call between this and a puma, honestly.

[machairocat]

ok chat how do we feel about him as a sticker

[mammoth-clangen]

Probably a dumb ask but, are icefangs prehistoric cave bears? (Idk the proper name or term for them😔😔)

Nope, they're Smilodon fatalis!

If you're talking about Moon 7's silhouette's lack of saber teeth, may I direct you to this excellent summary of several papers? >:3

And (mild spoilers if you wanted to put things together on your own but)-

You should really look at this ref sheet quite closely...

[makairodonx]

Smilodon fatalis sketch portrait

[jayietheriverwarrior]

I've been super into prehistoric life and learning about dinosaurs and ice age fauana and just animals from all over Earth's ancient past, this planet has existed for so so much longer than we as a species have and there is so much of life that we never got to see for ourselves. Of course, kitties like Smilodon here were around late enough for our species to have encountered, but it's still a shame that our modern eyes will never see one of them alive.

Anyway, with my recent interest in prehistoric life, and slight obsession with the game Path of Titans haha, I decided to try my hand at making a Smilodon version of my fursona Jayfrost/Jayie. :D

It was a lot of fun to work on, and I think it turned out great! :D The side view definitely turned out better than the front view, but ah well. I might get a commission or two of this design, I'm pretty happy with it. :D The fur is a bit longer than what Smilodon fatalis probably realistically had, but I think it looks good and for my fursona at least I don't mind going a bit unrealistic, not too far but I don't think this is crazy or anything, it's just a bit longer and thicker. 

I've been wanting to add something to do with my (tentatively labeled for now) demibisexuality with my fursona for a while now. I played with having a bandana with the colors on it, but for this version (and I'll probably add it to the small cat version soon too once I have time to redesign it), I settled on a flower... laurel, of sorts, that hangs down the neck from around the back of the neck. I had fun picking flowers with the right colors and that have some meaning. Oleanders I picked because I once watched a black vulture chick grow up in my backyard that I loved and the name I called him was Oleander, violets are there because apparently they're sort of connected with WLW in the LGBT community so that works, lavender is a scent I like and I wanted a longer sort of drooping flower, and the last one was because it was the only black drooping flower I could find, or close enough to black anyway. ^^

Like I said, overall I'm really happy with this. :D

[soggyskinflaps]

What a pretty kitty

[despertarsabiendo]

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