@@cagal1066 Nonsense, the size range of the American lion places it roughly the other way around; the Kodiak being about 1/3 larger! And the American cheetah ws nowhere near.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect take a field trip or watch a video on La Brea. They have an American lion skeleton right next to a sabertoothed cat (S. fatalis). S. fatalis is about the size of an African lion & the Am lion is 1/3 bigger. Also short faced bear was an absolute unit, 11' standing up. And I was just mentioning the existence of the Am cheetah so chill out.
@@cagal1066 I realise you were in fact speaking about the American lion. But if you read the OP, then your comment, yours can easily be construed as referencing the Kodiak.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect yeah my original comment was not the best. Lemme restate it. S. fatalis = African lion size which is smaller than any brown bear. American lions are about 1/3 larger than S. fatalis. Short faced bears are bigger than any modern bear in the Americas at ~11' when standing on its hind feet. And it's thought that predation pressure from American cheetahs pushed pronghorns into being the second fastest animal in the world today. Pleistocene North America was pretty terrifying.
few years later~ Human: where are you going, come back! Smilodon: Out of this jungle as FAAAR away from you psycho's Humans: i need your skin and bones and meat. your skin feels nice to touch and make excellent material to make shirt out of. I like ya, and I want ya. Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way, The choice is yaaawws 🗿🗿
@@LucasDimoveo closer to mongoose (which aren’t mustelids like ferrets and weasels) than wolves but still closer to cats than wolves. Suborder Feliformia: cats, hyena, civets, genets, binturong, most of the weird looking small-medium mammals 🤩
Many large cats today kill by attacking their prey's throat & neck --- even a house cat often bites off a mouse's head to dispatch it. My guess is that saber teeth came in pretty handy when driven in between neck vertebrae &/or down through eye orbits &/or the back of an animal's skull. Enjoy your Labor Day picnic!
I like the theory it killed like a puma/mountain lion by biting the neck/base of skull using the teeth to sever the spine something like internal decapitation. Just got to sneak the tip of the tooth between vertebrae. Although the teeth were probably too fragile to crush skulls like male African lions deleting a rivals cubs in aggressive takeovers of a pride, though they have being known to neutralise hyena by biting their backs leaving them paralyzed while still alive removing them as a threat so any bite along the spine is possible.
@@jamesnichols3519 How about that fossil smilodon recently unearthed in northern Japan? Its fangs (?) -- upper "sabres" are said to measure nearly a foot in length & be structured flat & serrated like a Ginsu knife --- no doubt guaranteed for life to never dull or break & to hold their excellence for slicing through meat, bone & of course, sushi....
This is less of a theory and more of an accepted stance on the animal. It is one of those Super Specialized animals that go har din one evolutionary trait to take advantage of something. During their time, their upper saber canines were used to slice through thick hide and between sections of vertebrae much more easily to clamp down and kill via blood loss and severing nerves in the bone. They went extinct due to how all Specialized animals needs the thing they specialize in in order to continue thriving, For the Smilodon it was due to the lack of the prey they were evolved to hunt going extinct and they could not compete with other predators to adapt. This happened to Spinosaurus who was a massive river hunter that specialized in said environment to such an extreme that when the Egyptian rivers drastically shrank they could not compete with the land based predators of their time due to their bloated slow bodies with non-serrated teeth to take down huge prey, or the speed to take down faster prey.
@@erickchristensen746 Well, look what the cat dragged in. As my accepted stance is usually both elbows on the bar at the local Legion, I'm honored by a response of FINALLY hearing from somebody who knows WTF they're talking about --- & trust me, EC that's not some BS theory. Enjoy your picnic!
@@madtabby66 No need to go out the city to see nightmares, sadly. Killers, rapists and others are out there, and they are far more dangerous than any of these extinct animals.
Why do yall always think your a greek philosopher with wack shit like this meh humans evil animals cute do no harm grow up would you rather be eaten alive as well?@@Carpatouille
It’s crazy how the evolution of every species seems to give us bodies that can get extremely jacked up and injured to kill and survive. The Earth is a violent place
imagine if in a parallel universe creatures evolved to perfectly each occupy their niche without having to develop means to forcefully take from others
You can tell this guy actually invested his time and energy to make this educational video by the fact that he actually used some effort to gather several artworks and illustrations instead of using AI crap to generate easy abominations. what a W video, great job.
Awesome video. Only thing is "Smilodon" meaning "knife tooth" is actually not due to the giant canines of the cat but rather the sharped incisives it had. This mistake is common for obvious reasons.
Fun fact: Smilodon would have seldom met the woolly mammoth as it lived in much warmer areas of the United States and Mexico whilè the Mammoth lived in Canada and Northern USA (Alaska) but it did meet Colombian Mammoths and two Mastodons the American and Pacific Mastodons
@@shafqatishan437 But S. populator definitely ran into gompotheres. Wooly mammoths were obviously adapted to cold climates, but most mammoths were temperate/warm weather species.
I was thinking the same thing. Well I said to myself isnt cats desert animals? That was my first question. Then I said wasn’t woolly built for cold? But hey who am I?!…..
14:34 that angle of lower jaw movement combined with its 4x weaker bite force than modern lions, makes me think that Smilodon hunted by using its powerful neck muscles after assuming top control over their prey using their massive front legs and massive claws which are both abnormally big compared to similar niche predators, by driving the head downward in a specific angle where the saber teeth would penetrate lethally, instead of relying on synching down on a neck of the target using the lower jaw. they were like wrestlers, leveraging their unequalled musculature by ambushing and specifically securing a dominant position using their hyper specialized front limbs, unlike modern big cats today, which rely on a combination of their limbs and jaw strength when taking down and latching onto prey and then suffocating/perforating trachea. that would explain the smilodons comically long teeth which are designed to penetrate at a specific angle or can risk being ineffective/damaged even.
If was a hunter back in those days and i saw a pair of eyes just staring at me through the darkness and it slowly appears with those two giant fangs and violent intent i would've actually shat my prehistoric pants 😂
I just looove kitties! All kitties! My question is; if one of these (I vote for Populator) were brought back, what would we feed them? We're all out of Mastodons and Glyptodonts.
@@animeuploader4992 That didn’t happen until we started rewarding weakness and sloth, while punishing strength and resourcefulness in the more modern age. The former became virtue, the latter became toxic.
I have a very large Tom Cat with canines much larger than my other cats. You can see the tips with his mouth closed. He always has to eat from the side like the saber tooth would have had to.
@@furrycircuitry2378 unfortunately for reason I don’t understand out of all his kids and grandkids only the females live past two or three weeks. He is something special though. I just hate I won’t have another.
17:53 That wild picture of a pot-bellied guy in a business suit attacking a Smilodon Populator with a brass-knuckles is utterly hilarious! One swipe from the Smilodon's giant claws would rip his face off, so that would be a short fight!😆
Actually a cat "plays" with a rat because a rat has razor sharp teeth and the cat must tire it out ,batter it, and injure it before killing it in order to keep from being bitten.
Domesticated cats kill an average of six creatures per day if they live outside. That makes them among the deadliest terrestrial carnivores alive today. The number of small creatures common cats can prey upon is in the high-triple digits, giving them more options than larger predators; meaning they can survive and thrive in a wide range of places. Like I said, among the deadliest carnivores alive.
Yes! I love cats. The coolest predators out there from house cats to lions and tigers. Elegant, arrogant, gorgeous, elusive, efficient, agile, scary, casually prey on animals multiple times their size and each one of them has a cool unique trait; House cats are fast enough to beat snakes, can predict the weather, can falls from a 10 story building and come out unscathed...etc. Lions have that royal majestic aura to them and will fight to the death, tigers are terrifying, very stealthy and borderline impossible to detect, many of them are man eaters, will hold grudges and take revenge, cheetah is the fastest land animal and can accelerate to 60 mph as fast as a supercar, leopards are agile af and can climb a tree as fast as they run on land, jaguars are extremely stealthy, excellent swimmers and can hold their breath under water for longer than a dolphin can, have a bite force stronger than that of a polar bear, strong enough to crush a caiman's skull, will jump in the water, beat caiman at their own game and drag them out by the skull...etc. I can go on forever. And there is this prehistoric mf... Cats man
Depends on the type of machairodont. With things like Homotherium, the sabers were definitely covered. But when it comes to Smilodon, they probably weren’t fully covered, due to their length. So sorry, no Smilodon with jowls like a bulldog.
Megatherium had characteristics similar to big friendly giants from fantasy stories according to Paleo-American myths which were passed down to the later Native Americans.
@@Jp19981absolutely not. Predators are only dangerous if they're hungry. If they aren't, you can make yourself not worth the risk. Herbivores only know fight or flight, and if you're smaller than them it's always fight. It's why hippos are more dangerous than lions
Your Thumbnail for this reminded me of a dream/nightmare i had YEARS ago.So uh Nice job! XD (it was a weird museam the area was cold cause its meant to be an ice age exhibit. a mastadon or wooly mammoth over a sort of dark cave/stairway which was like a cave. the various slopes had various other animals but i only remember the sabertooth and i swear it had the same reddish eyes too it.Goes to show some nightmares/dreams stick around in the memory.)
I'm a volunteer at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, and this is definitely the most accurate and well done video I have seen by far on the saber-toothed cat! With how the cats killed their prey, it is thought that they used their extremely strong forearms and sharp claws to hold down their prey while they used their sabers to kill by using a stab and slice motion - like a knife - on sensitive areas like the belly. They likely used this stab and slice method as their bite force wasn't as strong as that of other big cats (in favor of jaw flexibility to accommodate the massive teeth), who use the method of aiming for the neck and choking prey. On the topic of possible group hunting and living, we also have fossils of skulls with broken yet worn down sabers, showing that the individual was able to live and use their teeth for some degree of time after the initial breakage alongside receiving aid from others.
“kitty cat” in other words awwwww. all it has tk do is look at you and you’ll feel feelings you didn’t know you had and resort back to your primal instincts AWWWWWWW 1:52
We have since built museums to celebrate Smilodon and its legacy, and have spent decades studying their prehistoric lives. And if all of it has taught us *anything,* it’s this: No species…lasts forever.
Look man, your channel is one of, if not the best channels out for subjects like this. Please continue your work and I love the shoutouts to everyone that has helped you make all these videos. You're no BS, and speak of gorgeous animals with so much detailed information it's unbelievable. Without your channel, I would've lost complete interest about paleontology type RUclips channels as they always post about corny, unrealistic, cash grab thumbnails.. while you actually are so passionate about this subject in general. All in all, I love your work. I genuinely get excited when I get that notification that ExtinctZoo uploaded! #StopKillingAnimals
@@dannyhernandez265 Not really, there is a reason why countries like new zealand kill feral dogs because they are a threat to the native wildlife just like cats.
@@sonysoyboysaremadeoftears.7404We are aware of that and feral dogs are hated by everyone, but there is plenty of people who will defend cats mauling local animals to play with the body for couple minutes and move on, that's the difference.
I've lived in Nashville my whole life. We have a thing about Smilodons here. The discovery of one's remains under a bank downtown is why our NHL team is called the Predators, with a Smilodon as the mascot.
I'm too preoccupied with something else right now, to watch this video but is that supposed to be a black Sabretooth tiger on the title screen? If so, that's badass.
so basically diego from ice age. that's cool i don't think manny would let him satisfy his carnivorous needs on an intelligent being such as myself, i have an ipod with everybody loves raymond on it they'll wanna keep me around
I live in Kodiak and imagining a cat with its agility the size of a Kodiak bear would be a sight to behold.
At a distance.
And in the safety of a bunker
@@cagal1066 Nonsense, the size range of the American lion places it roughly the other way around; the Kodiak being about 1/3 larger! And the American cheetah ws nowhere near.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect take a field trip or watch a video on La Brea. They have an American lion skeleton right next to a sabertoothed cat (S. fatalis). S. fatalis is about the size of an African lion & the Am lion is 1/3 bigger.
Also short faced bear was an absolute unit, 11' standing up.
And I was just mentioning the existence of the Am cheetah so chill out.
@@cagal1066 I realise you were in fact speaking about the American lion. But if you read the OP, then your comment, yours can easily be construed as referencing the Kodiak.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect yeah my original comment was not the best. Lemme restate it. S. fatalis = African lion size which is smaller than any brown bear. American lions are about 1/3 larger than S. fatalis. Short faced bears are bigger than any modern bear in the Americas at ~11' when standing on its hind feet. And it's thought that predation pressure from American cheetahs pushed pronghorns into being the second fastest animal in the world today.
Pleistocene North America was pretty terrifying.
diego looking crazy in the thumbnail
🤣🤣🤣💀
😆
That thing looks terrifying
I'd be terrified of any animal named "Knifetooth the destroyer" 😂
Nah, I'd win. 🗿
@@gigachad6885so sigma
Sounds the perfect frontman name for a metal band.
Sounds like an orc warlord.
He has the name of an mongolian conqueror, Genghis Khan pal
The worst creature you could run into is just a meow meow. A really big meow, but still a meow.
No, thats not right, the worst creature you could run, is just another Homo Sapiens, the real Apex Predator.
They would’ve sounded like Mountain Lions
Yeah kinda depends on how quickly you want to go…bear or wolves get started eating before you’re dead. Jaguars probably the quickest way to go!
😂😂😂 true facts
Quick! Shake the jar of treats!
“What was the worst creature to run into during the Ice Age?”
“I can think of at least 10 answers to that question.”
Homo sapiens is the right answer.
@@andy99ish exactly what i was thinking
*OTHER humans*
Then you clearly don’t even understand the question
@@andy99ish Nothing more dangerous and twisted than us.
Humans: Hey, this place ain't so bad.
Smilodon: Welcome to the jungle!
few years later~
Human: where are you going, come back!
Smilodon: Out of this jungle as FAAAR away from you psycho's
Humans: i need your skin and bones and meat. your skin feels nice to touch and make excellent material to make shirt out of. I like ya, and I want ya. Now we can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way, The choice is yaaawws 🗿🗿
ima.. im a warrior!
@@timexyemerald6290 Humans: We're the True Gods of the Animal Kingdom.
@@timexyemerald6290 **stalks and tracks smilodon relentlessly with tribal hunting party**
We got fun and games!
Hyenas are closer related to cats than dogs so the original thought of them being hyenas make a bit of sense
And the front heavy build too!
Aren’t hyenas basically massive weasels?
@@LucasDimoveo closer to mongoose (which aren’t mustelids like ferrets and weasels) than wolves but still closer to cats than wolves. Suborder Feliformia: cats, hyena, civets, genets, binturong, most of the weird looking small-medium mammals 🤩
@@LucasDimoveo nope, mongoose is their closest relatives. Mongooses are Feliforms while Weasels are Caniforms.
@@LucasDimoveo Giant doglike Mongooses.
Many large cats today kill by attacking their prey's throat & neck --- even a house cat often bites off a mouse's head to dispatch it. My guess is that saber teeth came in pretty handy when driven in between neck vertebrae &/or down through eye orbits &/or the back of an animal's skull. Enjoy your Labor Day picnic!
I like the theory it killed like a puma/mountain lion by biting the neck/base of skull using the teeth to sever the spine something like internal decapitation. Just got to sneak the tip of the tooth between vertebrae. Although the teeth were probably too fragile to crush skulls like male African lions deleting a rivals cubs in aggressive takeovers of a pride, though they have being known to neutralise hyena by biting their backs leaving them paralyzed while still alive removing them as a threat so any bite along the spine is possible.
@@jamesnichols3519 How about that fossil smilodon recently unearthed in northern Japan? Its fangs (?) -- upper "sabres" are said to measure nearly a foot in length & be structured flat & serrated like a Ginsu knife --- no doubt guaranteed for life to never dull or break & to hold their excellence for slicing through meat, bone & of course, sushi....
This is less of a theory and more of an accepted stance on the animal. It is one of those Super Specialized animals that go har din one evolutionary trait to take advantage of something. During their time, their upper saber canines were used to slice through thick hide and between sections of vertebrae much more easily to clamp down and kill via blood loss and severing nerves in the bone. They went extinct due to how all Specialized animals needs the thing they specialize in in order to continue thriving, For the Smilodon it was due to the lack of the prey they were evolved to hunt going extinct and they could not compete with other predators to adapt.
This happened to Spinosaurus who was a massive river hunter that specialized in said environment to such an extreme that when the Egyptian rivers drastically shrank they could not compete with the land based predators of their time due to their bloated slow bodies with non-serrated teeth to take down huge prey, or the speed to take down faster prey.
@@erickchristensen746 Well, look what the cat dragged in. As my accepted stance is usually both elbows on the bar at the local Legion, I'm honored by a response of FINALLY hearing from somebody who knows WTF they're talking about --- & trust me, EC that's not some BS theory. Enjoy your picnic!
My cats do that too. They always go for the neck. It doesn't matter if it's a bird or rat. Always the neck.
the worst creature to run into was the 2 minute long unskipable add i got on this video
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I will now only refer to this animal as "Knifetooth the Destroyer". Gotta be the most badass classification name of all time.
Maip means "Shadow of Death"
@@grandgojira5485 thats a good runner up
@Jwalkiin Knifetooth the Destroyer of Worlds 😂
Sounding like a World of Warcraft boss
I atleast appreciate that your willing to say kill instead of unalive that’s always something special to see👍🏾
He might get hurt in the algorithm for it.
Cj you a busta
God damn not even here can i escape busta
@@Carl_Johnson_1992_GSF GSF 4 LIFE
All we had to do was Follow the Damn Train CJ
Everything from the Ice Age was a nightmare.
Go outside of your city. Nothing has changed.
Remember are great great great mothers and fathers had to survive these times they managed
They didn't have to pay taxes, all good.
@@madtabby66 No need to go out the city to see nightmares, sadly. Killers, rapists and others are out there, and they are far more dangerous than any of these extinct animals.
Why do yall always think your a greek philosopher with wack shit like this meh humans evil animals cute do no harm grow up would you rather be eaten alive as well?@@Carpatouille
It’s crazy how the evolution of every species seems to give us bodies that can get extremely jacked up and injured to kill and survive. The Earth is a violent place
Violence is the universal language between all species.
imagine if in a parallel universe creatures evolved to perfectly each occupy their niche without having to develop means to forcefully take from others
@@trhtkify both of you need to read a few hfy stories
@@trhtkify then how would the faulty genes leave the gene pool?
@@trhtkify that is an experiment world by eldritch horror or cosmic being not "real ecosystem" world.
You can tell this guy actually invested his time and energy to make this educational video by the fact that he actually used some effort to gather several artworks and illustrations instead of using AI crap to generate easy abominations.
what a W video, great job.
0:26 ...... Holy f**k, did I just see a Male lion take down a hippo all by himself 😧😯😧
He’s him
Smilodons: i will eat anything in my path!
Cats now: plz adopt me human
I guess life in evolution has been decreasing in size since the mesozoic era 😅
Oh please, we all know the only thing that has *really* changed is the size!
One is a big cat and the other is domesticated cat
the true apex predators
@@joanofsharc ya and currently we're the apex predator
I love how felines have been top predators for the existence of earth. Cats are basically the spiderman of the animal kingdom
Since the existence of the Earth? Felines are a recent family group, they certainly weren’t top predators since Earth’s beginning
Also, *felids. The only feline with any kind of claim to dominance today is the cougar.
Awesome video.
Only thing is "Smilodon" meaning "knife tooth" is actually not due to the giant canines of the cat but rather the sharped incisives it had. This mistake is common for obvious reasons.
16:20 is that Richard Nixon fighting a Smilodon?
Factually accurate too
Yes,that was during the presidential debate. I heard he sweated a lot though.
Was not expecting to see something like that 😂
Nixon explaining his actions for running the fade: I am not a crook
Perfect comparison
Fun fact: Smilodon would have seldom met the woolly mammoth as it lived in much warmer areas of the United States and Mexico whilè the Mammoth lived in Canada and Northern USA (Alaska) but it did meet Colombian Mammoths and two Mastodons the American and Pacific Mastodons
And probably went after their calves and juveniles.
S.fatalis met both mammoth species. S.populator was unlikely to face either species.
@@shafqatishan437 But S. populator definitely ran into gompotheres. Wooly mammoths were obviously adapted to cold climates, but most mammoths were temperate/warm weather species.
Someone used M. pacificus!!! Alton Dooley & Eric Scott will be so happy!!!!
I was thinking the same thing. Well I said to myself isnt cats desert animals? That was my first question. Then I said wasn’t woolly built for cold? But hey who am I?!…..
Evolution: "...supersize?"
Smilodon: "Yes."
4:02 I love how their names are just graceful, fatal and popular. Your just describing a house cat lol
The "populator" scientific name means "destroyer", which is still very housecat-like
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You are.
0:25 are we going to talk about the lion killing a hippo
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Man, nature really made the first cat and said “perfect, that’s it, copy and paste it to different sizes and colors and we’re good”.
14:34 that angle of lower jaw movement combined with its 4x weaker bite force than modern lions, makes me think that Smilodon hunted by using its powerful neck muscles after assuming top control over their prey using their massive front legs and massive claws which are both abnormally big compared to similar niche predators, by driving the head downward in a specific angle where the saber teeth would penetrate lethally, instead of relying on synching down on a neck of the target using the lower jaw. they were like wrestlers, leveraging their unequalled musculature by ambushing and specifically securing a dominant position using their hyper specialized front limbs, unlike modern big cats today, which rely on a combination of their limbs and jaw strength when taking down and latching onto prey and then suffocating/perforating trachea. that would explain the smilodons comically long teeth which are designed to penetrate at a specific angle or can risk being ineffective/damaged even.
Very good analysis and hypothesis.
Yeah, I figured they didn't bite, they stabbed instead.
🚫 -designed-
✅ Evolved
If was a hunter back in those days and i saw a pair of eyes just staring at me through the darkness and it slowly appears with those two giant fangs and violent intent i would've actually shat my prehistoric pants 😂
I'd be gone.
Like whether that's me somehow escaping or just accepting my fate doesn't matter🤣
"i would've actually shat my prehistoric pants." best sentence in this comment section
3:56 so fatalis is real just not a dragon but a prehistoric feline 😊
Our ancestors wished they had Light/Heavybowguns...
@@natgel17 Only if they were cringe
@@TheFriendlyBagel All weapons are fun in a way. The fireworks created by the bowguns would amaze them.
@@TheFriendlyBagel your ancestors were cringe
This need more likes, WHERE ARE MY HUNTERS? WHERE’S MY DRAGONATOR
Knifetooth The Destroyer is crazy
The saber is my FAVOURITE ancient mammal I find them very interesting and VERY cool
I just looove kitties!
All kitties!
My question is; if one of these (I vote for Populator) were brought back, what would we feed them?
We're all out of Mastodons and Glyptodonts.
As a cat person I absolutely agree with you
@Ethan_MM4 Diego was the best😅
ME TOO 💞 I LOVE THEM
"He who brings devastation". Must be talking about the human species.
Don’t hate because we did it better
Hell yeah, we're the best.
@@Carpatouilleok bud.
Beasts like these make you wonder just how tough and strong willed Ice Age Humans must have been.
At least the dumb ones were eaten.
Far cry primal n that one movie 1000bc made me guess they were using traps//grouping up while some had to die to distract lmao
@@madtabby66too many survived look at the amount of stupidity surrounding us
@@animeuploader4992 That didn’t happen until we started rewarding weakness and sloth, while punishing strength and resourcefulness in the more modern age. The former became virtue, the latter became toxic.
@@animeuploader4992how do u know u aren't one of them?
3:56 I Don't Know Why But Everytime I See Or Hear The Name "Fatalis" Is Think About The Fatalis In Monter Hunter
I have a very large Tom Cat with canines much larger than my other cats. You can see the tips with his mouth closed. He always has to eat from the side like the saber tooth would have had to.
that's awesome
Can you breed him to produce big teef kittys
@@furrycircuitry2378 unfortunately for reason I don’t understand out of all his kids and grandkids only the females live past two or three weeks. He is something special though. I just hate I won’t have another.
6:00 its a FNAF jumpscare but its a smilodon
Australopithecine: *Vietnam flashbacks intensify*
He throwing out gang signs
Looked like he's about to dance into the Kobayashi dragon maid season 2 op.
@@DakotaofRaptors 😂😂
0:17 seldomly
Nope seldom is correct too,
More correct even, dare I say…
@@1547biggiganticus"seldomly" is just out right grammatically incorrect, I think
@@BigGeorgeCostanzait's not
@@BigGeorgeCostanzaSeldomly means rarely, it’s fine.
@@BigGeorgeCostanzaYou would be incorrect.
I dunno man... you ever hear about the Arctic Ground Squirrel ?!
17:53 That wild picture of a pot-bellied guy in a business suit attacking a Smilodon Populator with a brass-knuckles is utterly hilarious! One swipe from the Smilodon's giant claws would rip his face off, so that would be a short fight!😆
Wrong timestamp
watching my 1 year old cat brutality torment a rat before eating them made me think how atrocious their primordial nature can be.
Actually a cat "plays" with a rat because a rat has razor sharp teeth and the cat must tire it out ,batter it, and injure it before killing it in order to keep from being bitten.
Domesticated cats kill an average of six creatures per day if they live outside. That makes them among the deadliest terrestrial carnivores alive today. The number of small creatures common cats can prey upon is in the high-triple digits, giving them more options than larger predators; meaning they can survive and thrive in a wide range of places. Like I said, among the deadliest carnivores alive.
Smilodon art work is always incredible. I can only imagine how magnificent they looked!!
smile, you done
6:37 that's an awesome animation. Almost looks real.
Its because they used a real lion to recreate it and how they move.
Thank you for explaining why carnivores/predators are smaller than herbivores/prey!
Yes! I love cats. The coolest predators out there from house cats to lions and tigers. Elegant, arrogant, gorgeous, elusive, efficient, agile, scary, casually prey on animals multiple times their size and each one of them has a cool unique trait; House cats are fast enough to beat snakes, can predict the weather, can falls from a 10 story building and come out unscathed...etc. Lions have that royal majestic aura to them and will fight to the death, tigers are terrifying, very stealthy and borderline impossible to detect, many of them are man eaters, will hold grudges and take revenge, cheetah is the fastest land animal and can accelerate to 60 mph as fast as a supercar, leopards are agile af and can climb a tree as fast as they run on land, jaguars are extremely stealthy, excellent swimmers and can hold their breath under water for longer than a dolphin can, have a bite force stronger than that of a polar bear, strong enough to crush a caiman's skull, will jump in the water, beat caiman at their own game and drag them out by the skull...etc. I can go on forever. And there is this prehistoric mf... Cats man
Poetry 😊
4:41 I did not expect Dean Schneider to suddenly appear in this vid but I am very pleasantly surprised hahah
Dean?
@@Kovs08 yep, that’s his name
I heard the theory that their canines weren't exposed all the time, but were covwred with flaps that made them look like bulldogs
Reconstrucción completamente descartada.
It’s fallen out of favor lately. Just because lips works with theropod dinosaurs doesn’t mean it works for everybody else…
Depends on the type of machairodont.
With things like Homotherium, the sabers were definitely covered.
But when it comes to Smilodon, they probably weren’t fully covered, due to their length.
So sorry, no Smilodon with jowls like a bulldog.
Many mammal have teeth that are exposed. Like elephants and the musk deer.
I would be more scared of a Megatherium than a Smilodon.
Megatherium had characteristics similar to big friendly giants from fantasy stories according to Paleo-American myths which were passed down to the later Native Americans.
BTW, Eremotherium was even bigger.
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It was a Sloth the size of an Elephant, that thing would’ve been the most dangerous animal in its ecosystem.
It wasn't a predator tho...If you saw a Smilodon you know you were fucked
@@Jp19981absolutely not. Predators are only dangerous if they're hungry. If they aren't, you can make yourself not worth the risk. Herbivores only know fight or flight, and if you're smaller than them it's always fight. It's why hippos are more dangerous than lions
Resurrect my boy, Smilodon Fatalis, from extinction!
No
Imagine if it didn't roar like a modern day panther but meowed and could purr like a modern day cougar.
Modern day cougars are more like "Hello there, big boyyy ;^) "
Your Thumbnail for this reminded me of a dream/nightmare i had YEARS ago.So uh Nice job! XD (it was a weird museam the area was cold cause its meant to be an ice age exhibit. a mastadon or wooly mammoth over a sort of dark cave/stairway which was like a cave. the various slopes had various other animals but i only remember the sabertooth and i swear it had the same reddish eyes too it.Goes to show some nightmares/dreams stick around in the memory.)
a tiger that is so much smaller has such an incredible roar, but imagine this guy's roar.
I'm a volunteer at the La Brea Tar Pits Museum, and this is definitely the most accurate and well done video I have seen by far on the saber-toothed cat! With how the cats killed their prey, it is thought that they used their extremely strong forearms and sharp claws to hold down their prey while they used their sabers to kill by using a stab and slice motion - like a knife - on sensitive areas like the belly. They likely used this stab and slice method as their bite force wasn't as strong as that of other big cats (in favor of jaw flexibility to accommodate the massive teeth), who use the method of aiming for the neck and choking prey. On the topic of possible group hunting and living, we also have fossils of skulls with broken yet worn down sabers, showing that the individual was able to live and use their teeth for some degree of time after the initial breakage alongside receiving aid from others.
“kitty cat” in other words awwwww. all it has tk do is look at you and you’ll feel feelings you didn’t know you had and resort back to your primal instincts AWWWWWWW 1:52
Smilodon was an absolute UNIT
ExtinctZoo: Talks about big prehistoric cat
Me: Looks lover at my own cats
My cats: Staring back at me
**Cue he looks at me and I look at him meme**
I’d argue that MOST predators actually target smaller prey. It’s really only big cats and some reptiles that target massive prey alone
We have since built museums to celebrate Smilodon and its legacy, and have spent decades studying their prehistoric lives. And if all of it has taught us *anything,* it’s this:
No species…lasts forever.
And; they can't swim in tar.
But the current rate that species are disappearing is too fast by normal standards.
Standing at the Smilodon skull wall at the Page Museum it's hard to deny that. I couldn't.
The day you were born, the very forests of the Pleistocene whispered the name…Smilodon.
And…you can do anything if you just try enough
Possibly the most charismatic, of all the charismatic megafauna of the ice age.
The Smilodon at 2:17 said 💅🏾💅🏾
That one kid:kitty kitty
The worst creature to run into during the ice age would be pissed off humans.
It's actually insane how cats became apex predators
Look man, your channel is one of, if not the best channels out for subjects like this. Please continue your work and I love the shoutouts to everyone that has helped you make all these videos. You're no BS, and speak of gorgeous animals with so much detailed information it's unbelievable.
Without your channel, I would've lost complete interest about paleontology type RUclips channels as they always post about corny, unrealistic, cash grab thumbnails.. while you actually are so passionate about this subject in general.
All in all, I love your work. I genuinely get excited when I get that notification that ExtinctZoo uploaded!
#StopKillingAnimals
10:31 so horses haven't evolved since the ice age? that's crazy 😂
Sad that these beautiful animals are extinct. It would be amazing to see these animals today.
Cats are still the worst thing to run into wherever they live.
Especially if you a small native species
@@jeremywanner4526 Yea because domestic dogs have never put native small mammalian species in danger ever............
@@sonysoyboysaremadeoftears.7404cats are still worse
@@dannyhernandez265 Not really, there is a reason why countries like new zealand kill feral dogs because they are a threat to the native wildlife just like cats.
@@sonysoyboysaremadeoftears.7404We are aware of that and feral dogs are hated by everyone, but there is plenty of people who will defend cats mauling local animals to play with the body for couple minutes and move on, that's the difference.
Great video. I was surprised to see Richard Nixon fighting a sabretooth with brass knuckles though.
That thumbnail image it's nightmare fuel 😂 great video as always
lol your videos are so clickable and at the same time they are not clickbait at all, I love that such a channel exists
I like how the “Populator” looks like the generic, *popular* saber-toothed cat depicted in media
The scariest thing is seeing thag thumbnail at 2:21 AM
"All hail Lord Smilodon!"
All cats: "Amen."
I didn't know Diego from ice age was that dangerous😮😮
4:13 silhouette of Rey from Star Wars to represent humans
I was looking for this comment! 😆
Excellent video full of non-repetitive information.
Great use of animation and pictures.
I just wanna say thank you for purchasing and giving twenty membership to Madly Mesozoic during his live stream. Much appreciated. 👍🏼
Super fan of this channel❤
The worst other animal you could run into at any point in history is another human with different beliefs.
Short faced bear
Left Wing Nut.
Not in ice age though. This was before "civilisation", before things like "war", "revenge" or "hell" were invented.
@@Mis7erSeven he said any point in time
Nice video man, it was really fun and interesting to watch
Here kitty kitty kitty!
In football terms: the best running back and offense linemen.
Update: I would love to see them brought back!!!!!
There's an entire movie franchise that has made it very clear why extinct animals should stay extinct 😂
Maybe we should start with stuff we actually wiped out
Maned wolf
Passenger pigeon
Dodo
Great Auk
Stellar sea cow
Blue Buck
@@madtabby66 Maned wolves are not extinct??? They’re endangered, but not extinct
That thumbnail actually jumpscared me as I was scrolling. Now that’s primal fear 😅
0:02 I should be a predator? I mean i am hungry and could go for a cupcake
Yes, if you are human you are among billions of predator humans currently killing all other species into extinction, please enjoy cupcakes💖
I've lived in Nashville my whole life. We have a thing about Smilodons here. The discovery of one's remains under a bank downtown is why our NHL team is called the Predators, with a Smilodon as the mascot.
2:31 the other *human ancestor* is like : "Yep, there goes Jeffrey"
Sorry to break it to you but we didn't come from apes😢
@@rickywilliams2096well duh you can’t Evolve from an existing species…? We and apes came
From the same origin.
@@cosmictraveler1146 we sure did silly....we sure did 🤓
I'm too preoccupied with something else right now, to watch this video but is that supposed to be a black Sabretooth tiger on the title screen? If so, that's badass.
13:51 so you're telling me they had to eat it from the back?
Smilodons are fascinating creatures
He who brings devastation? Sounds just like my cat Mr. Couch Annihilator
Excellent video, keep the hard work going.
I’m pretty sure humans are still the worst creature to run into
Nah we domesticate.
@@matheuswesley7138clearly you haven’t heard of how barbaric ancient humans were
@@JCruzReal In a barbaric world everything was.
Lesser beasts should fear us. Individually, we are weak. But our strength lies in our ability to learn, adapt, and cooperate.
5:04 Bombastic side eye. Bro is devious. Malevolent even.
A large smiledon vs a large American lion must’ve been a sight to behold
Brilliant commentary and information. Thank you very much for the education.
4:37 is that sneako
"To become an apex predator, one thing you must be, is a predator" Diddy: "this should be easy"
6:07 That's a cougar
so basically diego from ice age. that's cool i don't think manny would let him satisfy his carnivorous needs on an intelligent being such as myself, i have an ipod with everybody loves raymond on it they'll wanna keep me around
2:24 metal af 🤘🏾☠️
The worst creature you could run into is always another human, no matter the era.