[Justice Department]

Smilodon californicus

Smilodon, the most famous of the sabre-toothed cats, is the second most common fossil at La Brea. Literally hundreds of thousands of its bones have been found, representing thousands of individuals. It was first described by Professor John C. Merriam and his student Chester Stock in 1932. Today, it is the California state fossil. But Smilodon was not restricted to California; it ranged over much of North and South America.

Saber Cat

[PGR88]

Where’s that Helen Thomas photo when you need it?

[raybbr]

[Justice Department]

"Ironically, Smilodon was recently found to have had a relatively weak bite"

Weak bite compared with say..

[NavyCanDo]

Just don't anyone touch the image in the gallery of my mind of Raquel Welch and Barbara Bach in fur bikinis. They were real - alright!

[allmendream]

Its bite was only “weak” as far as pounds per square inch pressure. It had huge sabers! It was going to tear something a new everything, not clamp on like a pit bull.

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Justice Department.

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[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The problem with the movie was not the megafauna, but the idea that they existed in the same time and place as early human civilization.