Sentences with phrase «sabre toothed»

Unfortunately because the internal voice hasn't caught on to modern day living and is still stuck in earlier evolutionary times it doesn't realize that taking a risk or failing at something doesn't mean that a big sabre toothed tiger is about to eat you.

But, yeah, I routinely have heart palpitations while playing angry birds on the ipad while nursing... just like when I flee from a sabre toothed tiger

Not exact matches

It was observed on virtually every continent, although a particularly large number of animals became extinct in North and South America, where species including sabre - toothed cats, mastodons, giant sloths and giant armadillos disappeared, and in Australia, which lost animals such as giant kangaroos, giant wombats and marsupial lions.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

Giant Ice Age species including elephant - sized sloths and powerful sabre - toothed cats that once roamed the windswept plains of Patagonia, southern South America, were finally felled by a perfect storm of a rapidly warming climate and humans, a new study has shown.

To judge the opossum's sabre - toothed credentials, Ernesto Blanco at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, and his colleagues collected 44 South American marsupial predators, including four specimens of the short - tailed opossum.

They can also open their jaws unusually wide but their bite is relatively weak — as modelling studies have suggested was the case with sabre - toothed cats.

They would not be the first sabre - toothed marsupial to walk this earth, says Virginia Naples, a sabre - toothed cat researcher at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.

There are suggestions that the clouded leopard may show a primitive form of sabre - toothedness — although there is some debate over whether or not its teeth are large enough relative to its skull for it to qualify as a true sabre - toothed cat.

Large canines may be fearsome weapons, but their size makes them prone to fracture — and yet very few fossil sabre - toothed cats have broken teeth.

The sabre - toothed tigers and dire wolves that roamed the area that is now Los Angeles 12,000 years ago often had fractures.

A sabre - toothed cat that sported the fearsome teeth of felines also had the body and gait of a bear, making it a «super-predator».

The phrase «ice age» may bring to mind woolly mammoths, sabre - toothed cats, and perhaps Sid the sloth from the animated films.

In the age of sabre - toothed tigers and mammoths it was wise to be stressed, tense and alert; after all, being hypervigilant could save you from being eaten, but if your biggest stress right now is ensuring the bills are paid and your dishes are done, it would be seen more counterproductive to stress and worry.

If you're carrying a «backpack» full of sorrows, regrets or fears you need to lighten the load so that your immune system knows the sabre - toothed tiger has been vanquished (see blog 2 LINK) and it can stand down.

The CP system would rip him off the couch and get him flying in the direction of the exit and then when that immediate energy source was burned, some five or six seconds later, he'd have to rely on one or other of his other two energy systems; this is exactly the same process used by our ancestors when confronted head - on by a sabre - toothed tiger.

Because of the distortions and lies spread by fundamentalists about fossil: Smilodon; sabre - toothed tiger A discussion of California fossils — notably those of sabre - toothed tigers and the Smilodon — in the University of

From were - rabbits to sabre - toothed bunny rabbits, Nick Park returns with a Stone Age adventure featuring characters in the world's favourite stop - motion animation style.

From were - rabbits to sabre - toothed bunny rabbits, Nick Park returns with a Stone Age adventure featuring...

But sabre - toothed bunnies are not, of course, the only creatures these cave men and women have to worry about; this is a time when prehistoric beasts like dinosaurs and woolly mammoths are roaming everywhere.

But hey, at least we don't have to put up with massive avalanches, exploding lava pits and vicious packs of sabre - toothed tigers.

So, you can imagine you're on the African savannah in the Palaeolithic times running away from a sabre - toothed tiger, your face would go into this kind of rictus grimace, and then the sabre - toothed tiger breaks their leg as they're running after you.

Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like giant otters, giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true elephant», an ancestor of the woolly mammoth.

Around 5.1 million years ago, fascinating and now extinct animals like sabre - toothed cats, wolverines and short - necked giraffe roamed the west coast of South Africa.

A: It was only as secure as the next hungry sabre - toothed tiger that roamed in while we were sleeping.