To: new yorker 77
These friendly critters have died out and reappeared at least 4 times in the last 10 million years...
![](http://www.hdw-inc.com/sabertoothedcatextinct.jpg)
13 posted on
03/09/2006 2:51:02 PM PST by
xcamel
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To: xcamel; new yorker 77
That's true about the saber-toothed cats. And actually the modern Clouded Leopard has a tooth structure that is very similar to the saber-toothed cats of yore. It's elongated skull (which is so different from all other cats that it belongs to a genus of its own) houses the largest canines in proportion to body size. The Clouded Leopard is also known as the 'modern-day saber-tooth.'
![](http://www.columbuszoo.org/animalareas/austral/images/leoskull.gif)
![](http://www.thebigcats.com/cloudleo/photos/cloudleo_008_cdoggett.jpg)
34 posted on
03/09/2006 3:06:58 PM PST by
spetznaz
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