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    Sabertooth

    By Mauricio Antón

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    With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that were not cats, animals with exotic names like nimravids, barbourofelids, and thylacosmilids. Some were no taller than a domestic cat, others were larger than a lion, and some were as weird as their names suggest. Sabertooths continue to pose questions even for specialists. What did they look like? How did they use their spectacular canine teeth? And why did they finally go extinct? In this visual and intellectual treat of a book, Mauricio Antón tells their story in words and pictures, all scrupulously based on the latest scientific research. The book is a glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateNov 22, 2013
    ISBN9780253010490
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      Possibly because the author started out as an artist rather than as a scientist this is one of the better written books I've seen in this series, even before you get to Anton's fine drawings and paintings. If nothing else Anton wants to quash certain popular notions regarding the fitness of these creatures, noting that the sabertooth body plan has emerged independently several times over the millennia and so it cannot be a fluke. As for why they periodically went extinct the argument is that these animal thrived best in certain ideal climates that favored their hunting style of close-combat ambush and that at the opposite ends of temperature extremes existence became too unforgiving; highly recommended.