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!
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.”
I’m not saying black cats are inferior per se, I’m just saying their natural habitat is the dumpster where they can thrive. This is common sense and people who deny it only do so to impress females. I love and respect females, they make my cat weiner go all spikey.
I am not being political when I talk about this. Next: I receive Catdolf Hitler himself.
I hate how realistic this seems lol
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
Indeed. The fantasy of the past being better than the present is often rooted in falsehoods.
On one hand, I think that it’s fair to point out, and an interesting point.
But…on the other hand, I also think that generally when people say “we did X”, they’re often including people who aren’t their direct ancestors. And the degree to which they do that is context-dependent. Though they probably aren’t going back anything like 20 million years, either, in any kind of common context.
What’s our closest living relative?
searches
Looks like chimpanzees and bonobos, and our last common ancestor was maybe 5–13 million years back.
I guess we would include 'em in “we” if someone was saying “we left the oceans”. But they aren’t gonna make the in-group for “we won that sports game last night”.
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.
It’s not that they were weak, it’s just that all their prey disappeared when humans showed up. Seeing natural selection as some kind of merit has flaws. If they evolved, they were well-adapted by definition. If they went extinct, the conditions that made them evolve changed.
So they were too weak to update their food supply.
Are humans dying of thirst too weak to update their water supply?
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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