By Heinz J. Nowarra
Covers a number of the versions of the Junkers Ju 290 and its opposite numbers.
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Although the latest species, such as the famous Smilodon fatalis from Rancho la Brea, disappeared “only” ten thousand years ago, the earliest mammalian sabertooths lived some 50 million years ago (or Ma) in the Eocene of North America. 2). Second, all sabertooths were synapsids – that is, they belonged to the large group of vertebrates that includes both the mammals and the mammal-like reptiles. ” In mammals, that opening corresponds to the large area in the side of the skull where the temporalis muscle attaches to the parietal bone.
Apart from their fearsome-looking upper fangs, the shape of the rest of the dentition of sabertooths shows that they fed almost exclusively on meat. They were “hypercarnivores,” meaning that their dentitions were so specialized for cutting meat that they had lost most of their ability to deal with other food items, such as bone or vegetable matter. Many modern mammalian predators, including wolves and bears, are more versatile, with dentitions that are suited to crushing bones, crunching insects, and processing vegetable matter.
A scene in the natural trap of Batallones-1 (Spain), during the Vallesian (late Miocene, some nine Ma). Two sabertooths of the species Machairodus aphanistus snarl at each other over the carcass of a rhinoceros. The floor of the cavity is littered with the bones of animals that had been trapped previously. 5. A forest scene in the European Villafranchian (late Pliocene), with the felid sabertooth Megantereon cultridens. The body proportions of this animal indicate that it was a good climber and would have preferred forested environments.