[Sabertooth]

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When People Fled Hyenas

	A composite image of the skulls of Pachycrocuta and H. erectus, left,shows how the giant hyena may have attacked the face. Beneath is a disgorged piece of an H. erectus thighbone.

[Sabertooth]

Apologies for the botched HTML on this article yesterday. I reworked the code and screened it in three different browsers, so hopefully all of the bugs are gone.

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[VadeRetro]

Looks like a long read, but at least I'll be able to read this one.

[FreedomFarmer]

Morning! _Morning! Morning! _Good'ay! Morning!

Look, Howard's being eaten....

Humm...

Sorta makes ya think, don't it?

[stanz]

Good article. Will bookmark for a later read.

[LiteKeeper]

bump for later reading

[blam]

"Did humans leave Africa alone or simultaneously a set of large mammals? This question has fortunately only two possible answers:"

Not everyone 'buys' the "Out Of Africa" theory.

[Mike Darancette]

Thank you Bump.

[capitan_refugio]

When I lived in Los Angeles, I was a memeber at the Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries (i.e. the La Brea Tar Pits). If you are in Los Angeles, this should be one of your stops (not too far away from the Pedersen Automobile Museum too).

A friend of mine told me that when he was young, his father had told him the natural gas bubbles that can be seen rising in the tar pits, were Imperial Mammoth farts. What a laugh. Everybody knows that they are sabertooth's farts! ;^)

[solzhenitsyn]

Thanks for a fascinating article, Sabertooth.

[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.

[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.

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