Sentences with phrase «saber toothed»

Relationship stress — the terribly painful conflicts with which we struggle — activates the amygdala as sure as the saber toothed tiger coming across the path of our uber - ancient forebears.

Calling the material death threats is analogeous to calling a kitten a saber toothed tiger.

During the ice age, a woolly mammoth loner with a tragic past joins a wisecracking sloth and a scheming saber toothed tiger on a dangerous journey to reunite a one year old boy with his hunter father.

Now, you've probably heard it said that as cave people, saber toothed tigers prompted in us a healthy surge of stress, typically known as «fight or flight.»

All this is necessary so you can run away from danger like the saber toothed tigers our prehistoric ancestors faced.

Not exact matches

Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber - toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits.

If Cavemen had our blueberry nut bar, they may have stayed in their caves longer rather than being chased by saber - toothed tigers.

Cave moms had to deal with real threats to their babies like saber - toothed cats, being exposed to the elements, lack of food, illness, etc., but your wife's hormones are still as amped up as a cave mom's despite the lack of serious threat, so they have to low the bar substantially on what constitutes a threat (even to the point of making them up).

No female ancestor could fight off a saber - toothed tiger while holding a baby to her breast.

You know, to take a turn battling those saber - toothed tigers — not to come running at me shouting caveman obscenities.

One of the finest specimens of a Smilodon Fatalis (saber - toothed cat) from the world famous La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

The museum houses some 2,000 fossils of saber - toothed cats, several of which the two plan to scan in the months ahead.

«Instead of throwing me out,» Klapper says, Shaw took Klapper into the bowels of the museum and pulled out a drawer of bones from saber - toothed cats (Smilodon fatalis), one of the abundant prehistoric animals preserved in the pits about 14,000 years ago.

STICKY SITUATION At the La Brea Tar Pits in today's Los Angeles, mastodons, dire wolves, saber - toothed cats and thousands of other creatures — prey and predators — were trapped and later excavated.

Within decades, advances in sequencing genes from ancient tissue could allow scientists to clone extinct dodo birds, saber - toothed cats, and woolly mammoths, says Jeffrey Yule, an evolutionary ecologist at Louisiana Tech University.

From the horned and particularly hideous Carnotaurus of some 70 million years ago to more recent 200 - pound, saber - toothed relatives of the possum, South America was home to some of evolution's greatest oddities.

It's not all mammoths and saber - toothed tigers.

Now, a team of researchers in Germany has analyzed mitochondrial DNA from the North Sea fossil, comparing it with that from two saber - toothed cat fossils from North and South America.

DNA from a 28,000 - year - old saber - toothed cat is shaking up the feline family tree.

Smilodon, a saber - toothed cat around the size of today's African lion, skulked across the grasslands in search of ground sloths and mammoths.

That makes today's tigers and house cats closer cousins than the two types of saber - toothed cats.

It also confirms that saber - toothed cats were roaming northern Europe at the same time as early modern humans.

A scientist turns up new clues to the disappearance of North America's giant beavers, saber - toothed cats and other large mammals

At the end of the last ice age, both horse groups became extinct in North America, along with other large animals like woolly mammoths and saber - toothed cats.

The unmistakable remains of an early species of saber - toothed cat, found at Dmanisi with more than 10,000 other bones.

We don't look very threatening to a saber - toothed tiger.

They were in turn preyed on by cave lions, wolves, and saber - toothed cats.

As cool as it might be to visit a zoo filled with woolly mammoths, saber - toothed tigers, and giant tortoises, the best reasons for bringing back extinct animals have more to do with ecology than tourism.

An amazing megafaunal menagerie roamed the region: Giant armadillos resembling armor - plated autos; bears twice the size of grizzlies; the hoofed, herbivorous toxodon, big as a rhinoceros; and saber - toothed tigers.

Among them were saber - toothed cats, Etruscan wolves, hyenas the size of lions — and early members of the human family.

Among the largest and most complete specimens in the new collection are a giant ancestor of the saber - toothed tiger, ground sloths the size of grizzly bears, two types of camel, and new deer and horse species.

These giant mammals included the woolly rhinoceros, mammoths, llamas, camels and giant ground sloths as well as ferocious predators such as the short - faced bear, and the scimitar and saber - toothed cats.

Cave paintings dating back to the upper Paleolithic period, between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago, depict creatures long gone from the northern latitudes — mammoths, horses, cave bears, rhinoceroses (Rhinocerotidae family), and saber - toothed tigers.

Paleontologists have puzzled over whether saber - toothed cats such as Smilodon fatalis developed those robust limbs as they grew.

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But crocodiles aren't the only animals with exposed teeth — elephants, for instance, have exposed teeth as well, and many extinct saber - toothed predators had very long canines that were also exposed when their mouths were closed.

For instance, it could have guided our ancestors not to visit a local watering hole on moonlit nights because that was when saber - toothed tigers hung out there.

Mastodons, woolly mammoths, ground sloths, giant armadillos, and saber - toothed tigers roamed North America 14,000 years ago.

So next time you're faced with finicky eaters, tell them why there are no more saber - toothed cats.

Paleontologists have long wondered how extinct saber - toothed cats like Smilodon used their lengthy fangs when tackling and chewing prey.

Perfect fossils from a smelly tar pit tell us what the saber - toothed cat looked like.

An angry, saber - toothed forklift picked logs up in twos or threes and dropped them into a pile.

Within a million years, most of the large carnivores in the region — from saber - toothed cats to bear - size otters — had gone extinct, leaving just a few «hypercarnivores» alive, according to a study presented here last week at a workshop on climate change and human evolution at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

The most common large - mammal find is the powerfully built and fiercely fanged dire wolf (Canis dirus), with 4,000 individuals in the collection, followed by the saber - toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis), with over 2,000 individuals.

«Most people associate the tar pits with research on saber - toothed cats and mammoths.»

Weighing an average of 550 pounds (250 kilograms), this saber - toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, had a weaker bite than modern - day lions.

A reconstructed scene in the Pleistocene of western North America, showing a group of saber - toothed cats of the species...

The researchers found injuries on 4.3 percent of all saber - toothed cat bones and 2.8 percent of all dire wolf bones.

A reconstructed scene in the Pleistocene of western North America, showing a group of three saber - toothed cats of the...

The finding that saber - toothed cats sustained more frequent injuries than dire wolves suggests that the cats faced a much greater risk of injury over their lifetimes.