Q: How do you sex a Smilodon? (A: Very carefully)
Laelaps (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A very lion-like Smilodon , from Ernest Ingersoll's The Life of Animals (1907). For decades after its discovery the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis was depicted as little more than a lion with a short tail and long fangs. Given its size and habits as a large carnivore the connection appeared to make sense, but recent studies have suggested that Smilodon was quite different from the...