{"id":55,"date":"2008-11-05T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ylovebigcats.com\/en\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-10-25T18:23:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T16:23:22","slug":"fossil-big-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/2008\/11\/05\/fossil-big-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossil big cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=yvesroumazeilles&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0231102291&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=E1CC15&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The big cats that we know today are but an image of the species appeared then disappeared during the last 60 million years. Of course, I think of the famous saber-toothed tiger of our youngest years, but it is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0231102291?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=yvesroumazeilles&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0231102291\">The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=yvesroumazeilles&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0231102291\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>&#8221; of Alan Turner, illustrated by Mauricio Anton, is one of the enthralling books you sometimes find on a shelf. It simply browses through these dead speacies of big cats. I would have liked to find them in a photo safari, for sure: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Simodon fatalis, whose killing smile probably allowed it to hunt bisons;<\/li>\n<li>Acinonix inexpectatus, the giant North American cheetah that some would like to re-introduce indirectly under the likes of its current African cousin;<\/li>\n<li>Homotherium serum, whose slope-backed appearance would remind of current-day hyenas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A book that is read like a novel and is still a scientific work aimed toward a large reading public willing to know more about the big cats of prehistoric times, their evolution, their links with today&#8217;s big cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big cats that we know today are but an image of the species appeared then disappeared during the last 60 million years. Of course, I think of the famous saber-toothed tiger of our youngest years, but it is not alone. &#8220;The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives&#8221; of Alan Turner, illustrated by Mauricio Anton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,4,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acinonyx","category-neofelis","category-panthera","category-puma","category-uncia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","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=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ylovebigcats.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}