saber-toothed cats are actually an entirely different lineage from what are called conical-toothed cats, that diverged about 20 million years ago. all saber-toothed cats are extinct, and all extant cats are conical-toothed, and descended from conical-toothed ancestors; there are no living cats descended from saber-toothed cats

3 months later: "Hello sabermaxxers, today I will talk to you about optimising your killer instinct and releasing your inner feral cave cat. On a tangent, black cats are inferior and I hate females."

It had not occured to me until recently that all the big late Pleistocene fauna (like Ice Age animals) just lived alongside all animals still around today. Tens of thousands of year is nothing in terms of animal evolution.

So the African wildcat was absolutely contemporary to saber toothed cats!

If saber-tooth were so great, why did they go extinct?

Obviously, they weren't great enough to survive until now. They are far inferior to say sharks, crocodiles and yes, modern cats.

Look, Whiskers told us you've been on a lot of weird forums lately and, well... we're worried you're turning into a mewgenicist.

They were once Gods.....

Now they have been reduced to stupid cat videos.

Make Cats Great Again

One cool thing is they think saber toothed tigers had a really strong family bond. They found evidence that hurt tigers were taken care of after they were hurt. Suggesting a strong family bond rather than a solitary life.

Chicken is like "Tell me about it."

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