{"id":464,"date":"2009-09-24T10:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T08:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovebigcats.com\/en\/?p=464"},"modified":"2009-05-21T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T09:10:18","slug":"anatomy-the-grip-of-the-saber-toothed-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/2009\/09\/24\/anatomy-the-grip-of-the-saber-toothed-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy: The grip of the Saber-Toothed Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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:<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=4,0,2,0\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\"><param name=movie value=\"\/ZIP\/saber-tooth-skull.swf\"><param name=quality value=high><embed src=\"\/ZIP\/saber-tooth-skull.swf\" quality=high pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All the details on Saber-Toothed Cats anatomy are on <a href=\"http:\/\/animals.howstuffworks.com\/extinct-animals\/saber-tooth-cat1.htm\">HowStuffWorks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s really wrong; The animal had an astonishing capacity to crack his mouth wide-open, giving it a strong hook to catch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extinct-cats","tag-prehistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}