prehistory – YLoveBigCats https://www.ylovebigcats.com/en Big cats from the world,<br>a world of big cats Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:35:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Keep your sabertooth cat filet fresh https://www.ylovebigcats.com/en/2011/06/22/keep-your-sabertooth-cat-filet-fresh/ Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:28:53 +0000 https://ylovebigcats.com/en/?p=729 When Bosch German refrigerators want to demonstrate their long-term reliability, they keep meat for a very very very long time: Sabertooth cat filet dates back a few million years.

Sabertooth cat filet
Bosch refrigerators keep meat fresh for millions of years

Anyway, didn’t the filet went beyond the expiry date?

]]> Anatomy: The grip of the Saber-Toothed Cat https://www.ylovebigcats.com/en/2009/09/24/anatomy-the-grip-of-the-saber-toothed-cat/ Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:56:27 +0000 https://ylovebigcats.com/en/?p=464 Some believe that the Saber-Toothed Cats, impressive prehistoric big cats disappeared long ago, went extinct because the evolution of their canines too such length that they no longer could hunt, bite and eat. It’s really wrong; The animal had an astonishing capacity to crack his mouth wide-open, giving it a strong hook to catch a prey, as you can see in the following animation which allows a comparison with the modern lion anatomy:

All the details on Saber-Toothed Cats anatomy are on HowStuffWorks.

]]> When pumas, jaguars and cheetahs lived in Europe https://www.ylovebigcats.com/en/2009/04/06/when-pumas-jaguars-and-cheetahs-lived-in-europe/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:52:43 +0000 https://ylovebigcats.com/en/?p=296 Big cats like lions, pumas, jaguars, cougars, cheetahs or leopards disappeared from continents where they could be found in prehistoric times. Here is a series of articles about prehistoric felines.

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Source: Tretrapod Zoology

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