By Mauricio Antón
ISBN-10: 025301042X
ISBN-13: 9780253010421
With their spectacularly enlarged canine, sabertooth cats are one of the preferred of prehistoric animals, but it really is staggering how little information regarding them is accessible for the curious layperson. What’s extra, there have been different sabertooths that weren't cats, animals with unique names like nimravids, barbourofelids, and thylacosmilids. a few have been no taller than a family cat, others have been greater than a lion, and a few have been as bizarre as their names recommend. Sabertooths proceed to pose questions even for experts. What did they seem like? How did they use their surprising canines the teeth? And why did they ultimately move extinct? during this visible and highbrow deal with of a ebook, Mauricio Antón tells their tale in phrases and images, all scrupulously in line with the most recent medical examine. The e-book is a wonderful marriage ceremony of technology and artwork that celebrates the extraordinary range of the lifetime of the not-so-distant past.
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