Paleo Profile: Smilodon - Lean, Fatal, Destroyer · 9:52pm Nov 8th, 2018
The sabretooth is a time honored tradition amongst mammals and their ancestors, as well as other groups, popping up across time and space multiple occasions. In predators, they’re built chiefly to puncture large amounts of hide and tissue to kill big game, it’s a proven strategy. The first was in the predecessor groups of mammals in the Therapsids of the Permian and Triassic periods, namely the Gorgonopsids. Several dinosaurs also homaged the look with the horned Ceratosaurus and