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	Yaguarundi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The cat's ability to move with ease and to remain motionless for long periods of time, often up to 30 minutes until it can creep closer for the final dash, is a key to successful hunting.
		The tongue of the cat is peculiar among the carnivores.
		Most big cats prefer to hunt at night or at dawn and dusk, but their daily activities vary, depending on season, the weather, and the periods when prey are usually active.
	www.peninsulavaldes.org /patagonia/animals/mammals/yaguarundi.htm (3637 words)

	Buena Vista Museum Of Natural History - Sabertooth Tiger
		The "saber-toothed tiger," Smilodon, is the California State Fossil and the second most common fossil mammal found in the La Brea tar pits.
		Sabertooth cats had enlarged upper canines, some up to 18 centimeters (7 inches) long.
		This lends support to the idea that sabertooths were indeed social animals.
	www.sharktoothhill.com /sabertooth.html (86 words)

	Sabertooth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		He watched in horror as the cat slashed and bit his mother as she was already bleeding profusively from many wounds.
		The performed their magics on Sabertooth, now named after the great cat he slew to save his mother, and were able to save his right eye but the scar itself was much to deep for their magic as it went through the skull.
		This upset the clansmen for the son of the old Wolf clan was slain in battle and the child Sabertooth, the one to rule the united clans, was now metally and physically disfigured for life.
	www.firedragon.com /shadowgate/players/sabertooth.htm (1492 words)

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		Cats are one of the most ultimate "super" predators on this planet, after humans of course, and are uniquely designed to be a "true" killer in the family of mammals called carnivora.
		Cats and fossa's both have hooded retractable claws (the term "hooded" is used to discribe a boney hood over the actual claw that is coverd by skin), blade-like molars and premolars, highly sensitive whiskers, and light sensitive eyes.
		Most cats today kill their prey ether by sufficating the prey, doing this by bitting the nasal area and holding the prey down until it dies, or more commonly seen in all cat species, biteing directly onto the neck, severing the spinal cord or wind pipe.
	geology.wcedu.pima.edu /~jhodnett/Hodnett.html (3083 words)

	Sabertooth fish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sabertooth fish are usually a drab, light to dark brown when preserved; however, a brassy green iridescence is seen on the flanks, cheeks, and ocular region of well-preserved specimens.
		Their distensible stomachs allow sabertooth fish to swallow prey larger than themselves; their recurved teeth likely function in a manner similar to a snake's, preventing a captured fish from backing out and helping to guide the fish down the sabertooth's pharynx.
		Sabertooth fish are solitary animals; it is not known whether they undergo diel vertical migrations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sabertooth_fish (556 words)

	sabertooth
		In many of these cats the size of the saber varied so species with shorter, dagger like canines are called dirk-toothed, cats with medium-sized canines are scimitar-toothed, along with the larger sabertooths.
		The fossil record of sabertooths from the Monument, as in most fossil faunas, is extremely scanty and only provides a limited amount of information.
		Besides this Jaw, the only other sabertooth bone from Hagerman available to Gazin was a second metatarsal (one of the bones of the arch of the foot).
	www.nps.gov /hafo/crittercorner/sabertoo.htm (865 words)

	Sabertooth's Pride
		Another dirk-toothed cat was Megantereon, a cat characterized by a prominent mandibular flange (saber groove) and a jaguar-like body.
		All sabertooths doubtlessly inspired fear in early man. There are no depictions of sabertooths in the caves and for good reason: the sabertooth was evil incarnate for our ancestors.
		This is the first purely feline totem and the connection to all cats large and small.
	groups.msn.com /SabertoothsPride/theprimordials.msnw (489 words)

	L.A.'s Oldest Tourist Trap: Science News Online, Jan. 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The ratios of carbon isotopes and nitrogen isotopes in saber-toothed cat bones suggest that the species had fairly consistent eating habits during the 20,000 years spanned by these three dates.
		The specific ratios that Koch and his team found suggest that the cats were eating bison during the first 15,000 years of the period.
		The carbon-isotope ratios found in the bones of dire wolves that lived 30,000 and 15,000 years ago have proved mysterious because they can't be explained by the consumption of herbivores, such as bison, horses, and turkeys, known to be living in the La Brea ecosystem at that time.
	www.sciencenews.org /articles/20040124/bob9.asp (2261 words)

	Saber-Toothed Cats
		Surprisingly, there is more than one "saber-toothed cat." The sabertooth morphology has appeared several times during the history of the mammals.
		Saber teeth evolved both among the true cats, or the family Felidae (these saber-toothed cats are sometimes classified in a separate subfamily of cats, the Machairodontinae) and within the Nimravidae (an extinct carnivore family that was related both to the true cats and to the civets and mongooses).
		Smilodon is a relatively recent sabertooth, from the Late Pleistocene.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /mammal/carnivora/sabretooth.html (825 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The clouded leopard has a remarkably long skull for a cat, with well developed crests for the attachment of the jaw muscles and extremely large canines, when compared with other living felids.
		The exceptionally long canines, both upper and lower, have been used in the past to suggest a historic relationship with the sabertooth cats, although research has shown the sabertooths to be the end of an evolutionary line.
		The clouded leopards canines are not bladelike, as in the sabertooth cats, nor are the lower canines reduced in size.
	home.globalcrossing.net /~brendel/cloud.html (549 words)

	ISGS: Humans and Smilodons
		Size: The saber-toothed cat was the size of the modern African lion.
		Both cats had enlarged canine teeth although the canines of the Scimitar cat were shorter, about 4 inches compared to Smilodon's seven inch canines.
		The development of elongated, flattened canines, like those of the sabertooth and scimitar cat, is common in the evolution of large carnivorous mammals.
	www.isgs.uiuc.edu /faq/fossils/pdq265.html (1898 words)

	Smilodon
		The animals most commonly thought of in terms of the evolution of the big cats (and my personal favorite) are members of the genus Smilodon.
		Most cats attack smaller prey, but lions are able to hunt buffalo and other large mammals with the aid of group cooperation.
		Lions as the only cats with manes are also the only ones that live in prides.
	www.bluelion.org /smilodon.htm (747 words)

	Books : Fatalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Sabertooth cats that have been frozen for 11,000 years are now awake, hungry, and headed for L.A. Although not quite as gripping as Vespers, Rovin does an excellent job of showing the modern world as it faces one of the greatest hunters of all time.
		Sabertooth cats have never been seen in cave paintings and traces of their hides have never been found.
		All the sabertooth cats do is move from one scene to the next, slaughtering an amazing amount of people along the way.
	www.cosyreading.info /0312241038/Fatalis.shtml (995 words)

	Smilodon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Smilodon, or the Saber-Toothed Cat, is the power source of Boi aka TigerRanger in the Japanese television Super Sentai series, "Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger" as well as Trini Kwan and Aisha Campbell the Yellow Rangers in the American show that was based off of Sentai; "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers".
		The Nashville Predators mascot, Gnash, is an anthropomorphized Smilodon.
		The Saber-Toothed Cat was also the inspiration for the logo of the Nashville Predators hockey team, after a saber tooth of one was found beneath the site of Amsouth Center during an excavation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smilodon (562 words)

	DNA traces evolution of extinct sabertooths and the American cheetah-like cat
		Toward the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago, North and South America were home to a variety of large cats such as the sabertooths (Smilodon and Homotherium) and other now-extinct species known as the American lion-like cat (Panthera atrox) and cheetah-like cat (Miracinonyx trumani).
		The analysis shows that the sabertooth cats were a sister group to the modern cats--that is, they diverged early on from the ancestors of modern cats and are not closely related to any living felid species.
		The phylogenetic tree drawn from the new data also shows that the American cheetah-like cat is genetically most closely related to the puma, rather than to the true African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus).
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-08/cp-dte080305.php (381 words)

	The Ice Age Comes to the Central Plains
		This was also the time that sabertooth cats, called Smilodon, were among the top predators.
		The fossil remains of two sabertooth cats, one with its sabers stuck in the arm bone of the other.
		The skull of one cat was found with its large sabers irretrievably driven through the arm bone of another sabertooth.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0200/stories/0201_0105.html (623 words)

	Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument - Sabertooth Cat (U.S. National Park Service)
		The Sabertooth Cat from Hagerman Fossil Beds NM.
		Just about everyone has heard about sabertooth cats or as they are more popularly known but incorrectly named, "sabertooth tigers," but not everyone is aware that there are many different types of fossil cats with enlarged canines (the saber).
		A sabertooth cat humerus was found by one of our volunteers, Hugh Harper.
	www.nps.gov /hafo/naturescience/sabertooth-cat.htm (864 words)

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		In addition to the tooth enamel of a mastodon, the bones of "ground sloths, horses, giant armadillos, sabertooth cats and two kinds of camels are in abundance,'' says Knight, who is leading a dig that includes paleontologists from the Smithsonian and several universities in the South.
		Knight is excited by all of the discoveries at the Giant Cement quarry, but is most delighted with the finding of two sabertooth cat skulls, ''because few animals from the Pleistocene are as scary or as lethal as the saber cats.
		It may be months before the last of the hundreds of bones are completely recovered from the site, says Knight, adding that some of the fossils will soon turn up in the museum's Specimen Preparation Area, and he hopes they eventually will be seen in a Pleistocene exhibit on the natural history floor.
	www.thetandd.com /articles/2002/11/08/news/news1.prt (676 words)

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		Because they had a heavy shell on their back, glyptodonts are thought to have stayed close to the water living in swamps and went extinct in the Pleistocene less than a million years ago because of heavy glaciation, and climatic changes.
		Cats are represent in the fossil record by two families, the Nimravidae and the Felidae.
		Cats are also related to the family Hyaenidae, which includes the living hyenas of Africa.
	www.sinc.sunysb.edu /Stu/bburger/MainPage.html (4371 words)

	CM Magazine: Ice Age Sabertooth
		Part of the "Ice Ages Animals" series, this book examines the evolution, the life and the eventual extinction of the sabertooth cat (sabertooth tiger is a misnomer).
		California, scientists have made educated guesses about the cat's appearance based on restoration done by a paleoartist and on studies of wild and domestic cats living on earth today.
		The book discusses the various structural and behaviourial adaptations that enabled the sabertooth to be an efficient hunting machine as well as the effects of the Ice Age on this species.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol9/no3/iceagesabre.html (376 words)

	Sabertooth, information and coloring page, by KBears.com
		Sabertooth cats, or Smilodon, roamed throughout the grassy plains and woodlands of the world until the Ice Age of the Pleistocene Epoch eleven thousand years ago.
		The Sabertooth cat is famous for its two seven-inch-long (18 cm) teeth that grew from its upper jaw; it used its teeth by biting into the throats of its prey.
		Larger teeth showed other Sabertooth cats who was the boss, like antlers or horns.
	www.kbears.com /dinosaurs/sabertooth/print.html (124 words)

	Mastodons
		Both the sabertooth and scimitar cat have been recovered in the midwestern U.S. Both types of saber-toothed cats went extinct approximately 11,500 years ago.
		The development of elongated, flattened canine teeth, like those of the sabertooth and scimitar cat, is common in the evolution of large carnivorous mammals.
		This is the upper canine (saber) from a sabertooth (Smilodon).
	www.museum.state.il.us /exhibits/larson/smilodon.html (627 words)

	Justin Denzel: Hunt for the Last Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Fonn, the mysterious girl who talks to the animals and walks alone, has warned twelve-year-old Thorn about the sabertooth cat, but the shaman and the elders will not listen.
		They are convinced that the girl is a spirit, a changeling, the ghost of the mighty Smilodon, sent back to claim revenge on the hunters who killed him four years before.
		And somewhere, out in the night, one of the last sabertooth cats stalks his prey.
	www.trussel.com /prehist/lastcat.htm (169 words)

	ADW: Felidae: Information
		They are digitigrade, and their metapodials are moderately long but never fused.
		The canines vary from medium-sized to enormous in the extinct sabertooth cats.
		Carnassials are very well developed and cheek teeth are exclusively of the shearing type; cats do not crush or grind their food.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Felidae.html (695 words)

	Keyword
		Large cats such as the sabretooth roamed North and South America toward the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago.
		The puma, also known as a mountain lion or cougar, and the jaguar are the only remaining large cats in the Western Hemisphere.
		Paleontologists have closely studied the extinct American cats based on their bone structure, but the proposed relationships remain contentious.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=sabertooth (909 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Strelley Pool Chert and Early Life
		A fossil is defined as any evidence of ancient life, and in general, the farther back in the fossil record you look, the less the fossils you find will look like you.
		Sabertooth cats that lived a million years ago had incisors the size of steak knives, but they were similar to many big cats alive today.
		Some sauropod dinosaurs living 200 million years ago had little heads perched on long necks attached to bodies the size of small buildings, but they were still vertebrates.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17309 (672 words)

	Natural History Museum: Cats! Wild to Mild: Smilodon fatalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The saber-toothed cat was the size of the modern African lion.
		The saber-toothed cat probably killed prey larger than themselves, such as ancient horses and buffalo but may have also taken smaller animals like antelope and deer.
		Of all the animals known from Rancho La Brea, the saber-toothed cat, sometimes called the saber toothed tiger, most vividly captures the imagination.
	www.nhm.org /cats/encyclo/smilodon (360 words)

	Smilodon: EnchantedLearning.com
		During the last Ice Age, there were many large, interesting mammals, like the saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths, mastodons, and mammoths.
		Saber-tooth cats lived in grasslands, shrubby areas, and pine forests that supported the plant-eating animals that saber-tooth cats ate.
		These extinct cats are notable for 2 huge canine teeth among other sharp teeth in powerful jaws.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/mammals/smilodon (585 words)

	BAY NATURE: Mastodons in Our Midst
		The horses have three toes; the treetop browsers are camels, not giraffes; some of the big cats are not quite cats.
		The largest predator on the scene is a sabertooth, but not a cat: the powerfully-muscled Barbourofelis, who has huge upper canines that slot into flanges in its lower jaw, is a surviving member of the ancient carnivore paleosabers.
		It’s not a sabertooth, but it’s getting there.” Smaller than the modern lion, this cat was heavily built, with huge chewing muscles and teeth with serrated edges.
	www.baynature.com /2001summer/mastodons_sum2001.html (3273 words)

	Jabootu's Threads - Fun Animal Stuff! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It's now believed smilodons or sabertooth cats were most closely related to cheetahs, but hunted like jaguars, pouncing from surprise.
		One of the truly neat suggestions is that smilodons were social cats who may have hunted in packs.
		Saying the smilodon was born two years ago doesn't sound too unreasonable.
	www.jabootu.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2992 (266 words)

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