Wednesday, November 20, 2024

But did he brush those teeth daily?

 


This saber-tooth cat roamed the Americas during the Pleistocene, and went extinct some 10,000 years ago. Scientists estimate that its signature teeth, which could reach lengths of 7 in (18 cm), grew at the rapid speed of .24 in (6 mm) per month—double the growth rate of an African lion’s teeth. To unsheathe these knife-like canines, Smilodon could open its jaws twice as wide as today’s big cats.


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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2024 at 6:59 AM

    As it still had 'em when it died, it must have...or was doing SOMETHING right, at any rate.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 20, 2024 at 8:19 AM

    A caveman a day keeps the dentist away.

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  3. ChrisJNovember 20, 2024 at 8:54 AM

    But did he brush those teeth daily? No, no they didn’t, which is why they’re extinct. Coincidentally, it’s why alligators is ornery: they got all them teeth and no toothbrush. Mama said so…

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  4. AnonymousNovember 20, 2024 at 10:53 AM

    evolved for a specific puncture on quarry, I read years ago, to the neck or rear quarter below the rib cage. scientific american before it was scienshitfic awokican.

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