Sabre-tooths and Hominids

Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana ^ | Alfonso Arribas & Paul Palmqvist

[WRhine]

It's been my speculation for awhile that the early hominoids hunted the sabretooths to extinction because they were a cat that could not be reckoned with unlike the surviving big cats of today. Same for the Neanderthal. Poor guy, he just wanted what we wanted but wasn't smart enough to be able to compete for the forage needed for his survival. Both species, given their longevity and recent extinction had every reason to be around except, well, for man. Opps, you can add the Woolly Mammoth to that list of species too. But in that case, I figure one Woolly kill would have keep a small tribe of early man well fed and clothed for a year.

[MeekOneGOP]

Bump!

[Sabertooth]

It looks like some of the links to the pics are busted. Luckily, I found the pics elsewhere, for reposting...

A battle erupts between Machairodus giganteus males in a shallow Eurasian creek bed.
Sabretooths of all species likely fought violently over territory and mating rights.

Homotherium serum protects a freshly killed bighorn ram on the Alaskan steppe.
Its whitish coat was a likely adaptation for hunting under snowy conditions.

A Smilodon fatalis pack overtakes a bison in a pursuit across the American grassland.
Smilodon likely employed a cooperative hunting strategy, given the formidable size and strength of their prey.

Megantereon cultridens defends an antelope carcass from a scavenging band of Homo ergaster.
Though fossil evidence is lacking, sabretooths and early humans almost certainly interacted,
exploiting many of the same prey species and natural resources.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the lovely graphics. Great job.

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 11/22/2002. Thanks Sabertooth.

This is a re-ping in order to update the ping list message (which we'v been using since 2014, btw) and because it's probably of interest to anyone who liked the recebt topic Mediterranean megaflood confirmed.

It also occurs to me that I forgot to / never got a chance to ping the weekly list.

[BradyLS]

If it swims like a duck, feeds like a duck, and lays eggs like a duck…it must be a duck-billed platypus!

[TXnMA]

Sadly, FR returns "This account has been banned or suspended" to both Sabertooth's FRName and some of the images posted herein.

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However -- here's a discovery, directly related to the literal subject of the article:

I, out of boredom, am reading the November, 1985 National Geographic (the one with the holograph of a hominid skull on the cover). In it, all of pages 606 & 607 are devoted to the skull of a young hominid, who, evidently, was grabbed by the head by a Sabertooth, dragged up into a tree and devoured.

The remains -- including the skull, with paired, round holes -- matching the lower canines of a nearby sabertooth skull...fell into the Swartkrans cave, excavations of which are shown on p. 606.

But p. 707 illustrates how the sabertooth's upper canines pierced the hominid/s eye sockets -- while the lower canines puched the distinct holes in the back of the skull.

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What a weird coincidence: for you to post this article from a now-defunct FReeper -- and for me to be reading the Nat Geo article that illustrates it beautifully!

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure. :^)

Yes, alas, Sabertooth, an early GGG FReeper was long ago dun in:

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[SunkenCiv]

This topic was posted 11/22/2002, thanks Sabertooth.

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