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Smilodon

Commonly known as saber-toothed tiger or saber-toothed cat is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids.
It is one of the famous prehistoric mammals and best known as saber-toothed cat. Smilodon lived in the pleistocene epoch ( 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago ). The genus was named in 1842 based on fossils from brazil, the generic name saber-tooth means "scalpel" or two edged knife combined with tooth because of the teeth's resemblance to a dagger knife.

There are three species are recognized today:
S. gracilis, S. fatalis and S. populator

The two latter species were probably descended from megantereon, a machairodontine saber-toothed cat that lived in north america, eurasia and africa, it may have been the ancestor of smilodon. Hundreds of individuals were obtained from La Brea tar pits in los angeles constitute, the largest collection of smilodon fossils.

Smilodon was more robustly built than any extant/modern cat, with particularly well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long canine teeth. It's jaw had a bigger gabe than that of modern cats and it's upper canines were slander and fragile. being adapted for precision killing, S. gracilis was the smallest species at 55 to 100 kg ( 120 to 200 lb ) in weight, S. fatalis had a weight of 160 to 280 kg ( 350 to 620 lb ) and height of 100 cm ( 39 in ), both of these species are mainly known from north america, but the remains from south america have also been attributed to them, S. populator from south america was the largest species, 220 to 436 kg ( 486 to 961 lb ) in weight and 120 cm ( 47 in ) in height, and was among the largest known felids, the coat pattern of smilodon is unknown but it has been artistically restored with plain or spotted patterns like in modern cats that lived in savannas, forest and jungle.

In north america, smilodon hunted large herbivores such as bisons and camels, and it remained successful even when encountering new prey species in south america, due to the events of "Great Biotic American Interchange". Smilodon is thought to have killed it's prey by holding still with its forelimbs and biting it, but it is ( still ) unclear in what manner the bite itself was delivered. Whether smilodon had a social or a solitary lifestyle; analysis of modern predator behavior as well as smilodon's fossil remains could be constructed to lend support to either view, smilodon probably lived in closed habitats such as forests and bush, which would have provided cover for ambushing prey. Smilodon died out at the same time that most north and south american megafauna disappeared, about 10,000 years ago, it's reliance on large animals has been proposed as the cause of its extinction, along with climate change and competition with other species, especially human hunting, but the exact cause is unknown until this day.

Smilodon possibly lived at grasslands, savannah plains or forest. It ate camels, bisons, ground sloths, llamas, horses and other mammals from north america that migrated to south america. The largest genus is smilodon populator, the word populator means "destroyer" from greek latin.

The behaviors and lifestyle of smilodon is unknown, but there are possibilities whether this machairodont is social or solitary, some researchers suggested it probably lived social life like modern lions, or solitary like tigers, pumas, wild cats, etc.

The smilodons manage to live at the end of the pleistocene to early holocene, 10,000 yrs ago. The cause of its demise is unknown, but there are supporting theories such as;

Disappearance of megafaunas as their food source causes them to died out

Outcompeted by other mammalian predators

And, human hunting.

For now, scientists, paleontologists and researchers are studying this incredible saber-toothed beast, you see, saber tooth/ dagger like teeth evolved many times in earth's history, some examples are the mammal like reptiles from permian period, also fishes. Its crazy and bizarre but its beautiful. Evolution and natural selection are wonderful.

Reflection:
I wonder what i can say about my illustration of smilodon?, well there is some things in this image that needs improvement on the fur, background is okay, grass is drawn well. I forgot to draw spots, still acceptable ( my opinion ) because they might have plain, light dark/ dark brown skins like in lions and pumas. This what i can only say.

Description
Smilodon

Commonly known as saber-toothed tiger or saber-toothed cat is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids.
It is one of the famous prehistoric mammals and best known as saber-toothed cat. Smilodon lived in the pleistocene epoch ( 2.5 million years ago to 10,000 years ago ). The genus was named in 1842 based on fossils from brazil, the generic name saber-tooth means "scalpel" or two edged knife combined with tooth because of the teeth's resemblance to a dagger knife.

There are three species are recognized today:
S. gracilis, S. fatalis and S. populator

The two latter species were probably descended from megantereon, a machairodontine saber-toothed cat that lived in north america, eurasia and africa, it may have been the ancestor of smilodon. Hundreds of individuals were obtained from La Brea tar pits in los angeles constitute, the largest collection of smilodon fossils.

Smilodon was more robustly built than any extant/modern cat, with particularly well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long canine teeth. It's jaw had a bigger gabe than that of modern cats and it's upper canines were slander and fragile. being adapted for precision killing, S. gracilis was the smallest species at 55 to 100 kg ( 120 to 200 lb ) in weight, S. fatalis had a weight of 160 to 280 kg ( 350 to 620 lb ) and height of 100 cm ( 39 in ), both of these species are mainly known from north america, but the remains from south america have also been attributed to them, S. populator from south america was the largest species, 220 to 436 kg ( 486 to 961 lb ) in weight and 120 cm ( 47 in ) in height, and was among the largest known felids, the coat pattern of smilodon is unknown but it has been artistically restored with plain or spotted patterns like in modern cats that lived in savannas, forest and jungle.

In north america, smilodon hunted large herbivores such as bisons and camels, and it remained successful even when encountering new prey species in south america, due to the events of "Great Biotic American Interchange". Smilodon is thought to have killed it's prey by holding still with its forelimbs and biting it, but it is ( still ) unclear in what manner the bite itself was delivered. Whether smilodon had a social or a solitary lifestyle; analysis of modern predator behavior as well as smilodon's fossil remains could be constructed to lend support to either view, smilodon probably lived in closed habitats such as forests and bush, which would have provided cover for ambushing prey. Smilodon died out at the same time that most north and south american megafauna disappeared, about 10,000 years ago, it's reliance on large animals has been proposed as the cause of its extinction, along with climate change and competition with other species, especially human hunting, but the exact cause is unknown until this day.

Smilodon possibly lived at grasslands, savannah plains or forest. It ate camels, bisons, ground sloths, llamas, horses and other mammals from north america that migrated to south america. The largest genus is smilodon populator, the word populator means "destroyer" from greek latin.

The behaviors and lifestyle of smilodon is unknown, but there are possibilities whether this machairodont is social or solitary, some researchers suggested it probably lived social life like modern lions, or solitary like tigers, pumas, wild cats, etc.

The smilodons manage to live at the end of the pleistocene to early holocene, 10,000 yrs ago. The cause of its demise is unknown, but there are supporting theories such as;

Disappearance of megafaunas as their food source causes them to died out

Outcompeted by other mammalian predators

And, human hunting.

For now, scientists, paleontologists and researchers are studying this incredible saber-toothed beast, you see, saber tooth/ dagger like teeth evolved many times in earth's history, some examples are the mammal like reptiles from permian period, also fishes. Its crazy and bizarre but its beautiful. Evolution and natural selection are wonderful.

Reflection:
I wonder what i can say about my illustration of smilodon?, well there is some things in this image that needs improvement on the fur, background is okay, grass is drawn well. I forgot to draw spots, still acceptable ( my opinion ) because they might have plain, light dark/ dark brown skins like in lions and pumas. This what i can only say.