| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 243 pages :) : color illustrations. |
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Life of the Past |
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Life of the past.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. What Is a Sabertooth?; 2. The Ecology of Sabertooths; 3. A Who's Who of Sabertoothed Predators; 4. Sabertooths as Living Predators; 5. Extinctions; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z. |
| Summary |
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 teet. |
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Saber-toothed tigers.
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Carnivora, Fossil.
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Carnivora -- Evolution.
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Animals, Fossil.
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NATURE -- Fossils.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Mammals.
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Carnivora, Fossil. (OCoLC)fst00847692
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Saber-toothed tigers. (OCoLC)fst01102976
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Antón, Mauricio. Sabertooth. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2013 9780253010421 |
| ISBN |
9780253010490 (electronic bk.) |
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0253010497 (electronic bk.) |
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