Saturday, March 09, 2013

"Homotherium is perhaps my favorite felid..."

... says Nathaniel below. I agreed, then laughed at the oddity of a blog where readers could make that statement with a straight face, though there are a couple of others on the blogroll...

Here is my favorite image of Homotherium serum, a frightening predator, in life bigger than an African lion and possibly cursorial like a hyena, by Mauricio Anton for The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives. The paperweight is a young mammoth's tooth found by Joe Hutto in Florida; young mammoths were the major prey of a species of Homotherium at one European site.



And a mother and cubs of another color morph:

3 comments:

Nathaniel Fitch said...

Ah, excellent pictures!

Being able to talk about your favorite extinct fuzzies at leisure is a sign of good company, or perhaps strong drink. The former in this instance, I think.

WilhelmDurand said...
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Anonymous said...

Yeah, I'm always telling folks what an "eclectic" group of folks are on "Querencia". And to illustrate how well(?) I fit in--I purchased awhile back the BEST, MOST REALISTIC, Saber-Toothed Cat plastic toy EVER--incredible detail! My house is cram full of such plastic animal fetishes(in every niche, nook, and cranny)--simply a primitive person's modernized version of ivory, stone, or wooden animal fetishes. Including plenty of prehistoric critters. This Saber-Tooth is the newest "Safari" company model, for those of you modern Cro-Magnon's who are interested in trading for your own--available on Amazon in the toy department, and so easy to order, a caveman can do it!