-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
- September 2020
- May 2020
- April 2020
- January 2020
- November 2019
- October 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- October 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
Categories
- American Lion
- Antilocapra americana peninsularis
- Arctic Ground Squirrel
- art
- Aurochs
- Bibymalagasy
- Bison
- Bone Crushing Dog
- Book review
- Brown Bear
- Camelops
- Cave art
- Cave Bear
- Cave Lion
- Celebrate!
- Chalicothere
- Chamois
- Cheetah
- Clovis hunters
- Columbian Mammoth
- Creswell Crags
- Deinotherium
- Denisovan
- dhole
- Diprotodon
- DNA
- Dodo
- Dog
- Dwarf pronghorn
- Elasmotherium
- Elephant Bird
- Eucladoceros
- European Jaguar
- Extinction
- foraminifera
- Giant Beaver
- Giant Cuban Owl
- Giant Echidna
- Giant Ground Sloth
- Giant Hawaiian Duck
- Giant Lemur
- Giant Maltese Dormice
- Giant Sheep
- Giant Short-Faced Kangaroo
- Giant Swimming Sloth
- Giant tapir
- Giant Tortoise
- Giant Vampire Bat
- Gigantocamelus
- Gigantopithecus
- Glyptodon
- Gompothere
- great auk
- Ground Sloth
- Harpagornis
- Hippopotamus
- Holmesina
- Homo naledi
- Homo sapiens
- Horned Gopher
- Horse
- Hyena
- Ibis
- Irish Elk
- Jerboa
- Kauri tree
- Key Deer
- Lemming
- Leopard
- Lynx
- Macrauchenia
- Marsupial Lion
- Marsupial Tapir
- Mastodon
- Mega-flood
- Megalania
- Megalodon
- Meiolania
- moa
- moose
- Mouse Goat
- Neanderthal
- Nuralagus
- Pachycrocuta
- Palaeoloxodon
- Paranthropus
- Parasites
- Peccary
- Polar Bear
- Pronghorn
- Pudu
- Quagga
- red deer
- Red Panda
- Reindeer
- Sabre tooth Cat
- Sabre tooth salmon
- Saiga antelope
- Scientific Art
- Sea cow
- Short Faced Bear
- Shrew
- Sivatherium
- Stegodon
- Steppe Mammoth
- Teratorns
- Terror Bird
- Thalassocnus
- Thylacine
- Toxodon
- Uncategorized
- Wonambi
- Woodward Eagle
- Woolly Mammoth
- Woolly Rhinoceros
- Xenocyon
- Zygolophodon
- Zygomaturus
Meta
Tag Archives: Homotherium latidens
Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth
Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth I recently bought this book (with my own money, this is an impartial review: I can’t be bought, man!). “Smilodon” is somewhat of a companion volume to another recent-ish release, namely “The Other Saber-tooths: Scimitar-tooth Cats … Continue reading
Sabertooth
[This review was written in 2014, when the book first came out] I recently read “Sabertooth” by Mauricio Anton. Obviously given my interests, this was one book I had to treat myself to. Anton and Turner’s “Big cats and their … Continue reading
The first Mammoth of the Steppes
Four men stood beneath the wooden frame of this enormous proboscidean. On the front left leg, the man slowly raises his own left leg, bringing up with it the leg of the beast. Slowly, the skeletal leg lifted from the … Continue reading
Posted in Steppe Mammoth
Tagged Elephantidae, Homotherium latidens, Mammoth, Mammoth Steppe, Pleistocene, Southern Mammoth, Steppe rhinoceros
10 Comments
The silent hunter
“Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most graceful and the most beautiful of all animals in … Continue reading
Posted in Leopard
Tagged African leopard, British Geological Survey, Cave leopard, Chauvet Cave, felid, Homotherium latidens, jaguar, Jan Freedman, Javan leopard, leopard, Panthera pardus antiqua, Panthera pardus melas, Panthera pardus pardus, Panthera pardus sickenbergi, Panthera pardus spelaea
8 Comments
The Old World Jaguar
Unless you know your big cats particularly well, it can be difficult to separate the leopard (Panthera pardus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca). Both are large, lithe animals with black rosettes on a yellowish background coat. Put them beside each … Continue reading
Posted in European Jaguar
Tagged Homotherium latidens, jaguar, leopard, North Sea, Panthera, Panthera gombaszoegensis, Panthera spelaea, Swanscombe, West Runton, Westbury
15 Comments
To worship the lion
We think of lions, today, as African animals. This is mostly true. However, there is still a tiny refugium of non-African lions, isolated in the Kathiawar peninsula of India, and centred on the Gir forest reserve. Here, 400 or so … Continue reading
Posted in Cave Lion
Tagged American lion, art, Cave Lion, Chauvet Caves, Extinction, Homotherium latidens, Lascaux Caves, löwenmensch, Pleistocene
10 Comments
The one with the sabretooth
Smilodon is the genus of extinct sabretooth that everyone knows. Stocky, hugely muscled, with canines that protrude far below the jaw, it is the archetypal Pleistocene predator. It was a member of the machairodontinae, an extinct subfamily of the Felidae … Continue reading
The forgotten sabretooth
If the Pleistocene megafauna held a popularity contest then I’m certain that some species would pop up more than others. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), the giant ground sloth (Megatherium americanum) and sabretooth cat (Smilodon fatalis) are probably the gold, silver, … Continue reading
