I got bored so I digitized a Smilodon sketch I had laying around for a while.
For those who don’t know, Smilodon is the scientific name for the “Saber Toothed Cat/Tiger”, which was one of the largest predators of the Americas during the last Ice Age. Smilodon comprises of 3 species, S. gracilis, the ancestor of the more famous species, S. fatalis, which lived in North America, and S. populator, which lived in South America, and was the largest species, and very likely the largest naturally occurring cat ever, though this is still up for debate.
The species depicted her is S. fatalis, commonly found in the La Brea tar pits, and is even California’s state fossil for that fact.
When I was a kid, and sometimes even now, I’d imagine Pleistocene animals like this wandering around my neighborhood in Los Angeles. It’s a weird kind of escapism in which it’s nicer to imagine what life was like before humans were on that land. Quiet, pure. Away from the overwhelming clamor.
I got bored so I digitized a Smilodon sketch I had laying around for a while.
For those who don’t know, Smilodon is the scientific name for the “Saber Toothed Cat/Tiger”, which was one of the largest predators of the Americas during the last Ice Age. Smilodon comprises of 3 species, S. gracilis, the ancestor of the more famous species, S. fatalis, which lived in North America, and S. populator, which lived in South America, and was the largest species, and very likely the largest naturally occurring cat ever, though this is still up for debate.
The species depicted her is S. fatalis, commonly found in the La Brea tar pits, and is even California’s state fossil for that fact.
When I was a kid, and sometimes even now, I’d imagine Pleistocene animals like this wandering around my neighborhood in Los Angeles. It’s a weird kind of escapism in which it’s nicer to imagine what life was like before humans were on that land. Quiet, pure. Away from the overwhelming clamor.
