It is estimated that the “saber tooth squirrel” was about 4-6 inches long. It had a long skinny mouth with long canine teeth. It is believed its diet consisted of worms and insects. The mammal was described by Guillermo Rougier to look like the squirrel in the movie “Ice Age” calle...
One of the most fascinating facts about Smilodon is that while it is often referred to as a saber-toothed tiger, it really wasn’t a tiger. No, tigers are in fact descended from the Panthera tigris family. Smilodon is actually distantly related to modern lions and cheetahs. Just by looking...
Many of the largest members of the Eutheria class, including giant rodents, mammoths, saber-tooth tigers, and many others, went extinct in the last million or so years. The greatest extinction wave occurred around 50,000 years ago, as our ancestors spread across the planet, overhunting many...
The word placenta comes from the Latin word for cake, and the Greek word for "flat, slab-like". According to that, we are all cake-mammals. But of course, it is not really possible to get all of your nutrients from cake the way babies get them from the placenta. ...
while the rest of the old world saw the rise of placental species. In South America, the proliferation of both types of animals was present. An example of a specific species is the saber tooth tiger of Europe and the marsupial saber tooth of South America. These species were very similar,...