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DescriptionSabertooth by Mauricio Antón (Hardcover – October 1st 2013) {BinanGotit}  Product Details Hardcover: 268 pages Publisher: Indiana University Press (November 22nd 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 025301042X ISBN-13: 978-0253010421 Hardcover: CDN$ 57.96 Kindle Edition: CDN$ 45.35 With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What’s more, there were other sabertooths that were not cats, animals with exotic names like nimravids, barbourofelids, and thylacosmilids. Some were no taller than a domestic cat, others were larger than a lion, and some were as weird as their names suggest. Sabertooths continue to pose questions even for specialists. What did they look like? How did they use their spectacular canine teeth? And why did they finally go extinct? In this visual and intellectual treat of a book, Mauricio Antón tells their story in words and pictures, all scrupulously based on the latest scientific research. The book is a glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past. About the Author Mauricio Antón has painted paleo murals for the Sabadell Museum in Spain, the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, the Florida Museum of Natural History, and the American Museum of Natural History. He has coauthored and illustrated numerous books, including Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History; The National Geographic Book of Prehistoric Mammals; Evolving Eden; Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids; and The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives.  A scene in the early Pleistocene of Koobi Fora, Kenya, with a band of Homo ergaster trying to evict Megantereon from its waterbuck kill. With a larger body size than earlier hominid species and more refined stone technology, Homo ergaster probably turned from opportunistic scavenging to true kleptoparisitism.  A scene in the early Pleistocene fossil site of Fuente Nueva, in southern Spain, with a band of hominids butchering a young mammoth, possibly a victim of predation by Homotherium. Scavenging from the kills of larger carnivores has been a source of protein for our ancestors at least since the advent of the genus Homo.  Sharing Widget |