Significats de smilodon en anglès

The La Brea researchers saw the canines of Smilodon as serrated knives.

Aside from the woolly mammoth, no Pleistocene creature is more iconic than Smilodon.

Top Image: A restoration of Smilodon by Charles R. Knight.

When Merriam and Stock compiled the book, though, no one knew how Smilodon hunted.

Attenborough said he had been particularly astonished by the computer-generated movements of the skeletal Smilodon.

Likewise, Matthew criticized the proposal that Smilodon was aquatic.

Viewed from a Darwinian perspective, it didn't make sense that Smilodon would evolve itself into extinction.

No such division was seen in Smilodon, though.

On a superficial level, the predatory habits of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon would not seem to be especially mysterious.

The dirk-toothed cats -such as the famous Smilodon -had long, slender canine teeth and relatively stocky frames.

Imagine a Smilodon crouched over a freshly killed horse, fangs buried to the hilt, slurping blood from the wounds.

How Smilodon got in position to repeatedly slam its mouth into a bison or mastodon's hide, the paleontologists didn't say.

A Smilodon fends off vultures at what would later be called the Rancho La Brea tar pits, situated in Los Angeles, California.

The trend seen among the modern lions allowed the researchers to accurately interpret the data for the extinct La Brea lions and Smilodon.

For years, paleontologists have been debating whether Smilodon was a social hunter, like the lions, or whether the sabercat was a tiger-like, solitary hunter.

For decades after its discovery the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis was depicted as little more than a lion with a short tail and long fangs.