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Though it resembles today’s living leopard, promegantereon belonged to a deeper, earlier branch of the cat family. Across Eurasia 13 million years ago, promegantereon was at the very beginning history of cats. Cats had to adapt quickly to efficiently take hold and dispatch their prey. Promegantereon shared its habitat with the much larger, lion sized sabertothed cat machairodus, as well as large hyenas, bear dogs, giant pigs and other ferocious, late Miocene fauna. Promegantereon, much like today’s leopards had to be swift and live in the shadows of much larger than itself. With a longer neck, flattened canines and strongly built forearms Promegantereon was a strong grappler. Its canines were flattened and bladed. Instead of suffocating Promegantereon did its killing with a ripping shearing bite to the throat after firmly immobilizing it’s prey. Promegantereon was starting to perfect a movement that would give rise to the most fearsome cats known, the sabertoothed cats.


This metal sculpture and a digital reconstruction, are based on the osteological remains found at the fossil site Cerro Batallones outside of Madrid.


Poster available -

http://www.making-sabertooths.com


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Sergei Merjeevski.

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