Archive for the 'Extinct cats' category

When Bosch German refrigerators want to demonstrate their long-term reliability, they keep meat for a very very very long time: Sabertooth cat filet dates back a few million years.

Bosch refrigerators keep meat fresh for millions of years

Anyway, didn’t the filet went beyond the expiry date?

Some believe that the Saber-Toothed Cats, impressive prehistoric big cats disappeared long ago, went extinct because the evolution of their canines too such length that they no longer could hunt, bite and eat. It’s really wrong; The animal had an astonishing capacity to crack his mouth wide-open, giving it a strong hook to catch a prey, as you can see in the following animation which allows a comparison with the modern lion anatomy:

All the details on Saber-Toothed Cats anatomy are on HowStuffWorks.

If you love saber-tooth cats, if you love drawing, if you want to associated both, it’s time you visit the DragoArt.com web site. They have a nice tutorial on how to draw one of these extinct big cats.

Draw a saber tooth tiger

You will learn to draw in step by step construction, the Saber Tooth Tiger from the movie called 10.000 B.C.