Text Appearing Before Image: 42 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL Almost all the fossil Cats belong to a division now extinct, in which the upper canine teeth were enlarged into great curving, flattened, sharp-edged tusks, sometimes seven inches long. Smilodon of the Pleistocene epoch was as large as a polar bear, and exceedingly muscular, especially in the great massive fore-limbs. The claws in the mounted skeleton (upright case) are larger than the largest lion claws. One of the great tusks is complete, the other was broken off during the lifetime of the Text Appearing After Image: FiQ. 18. THE GREAT SARBE-TOOTH TIGER, SMILODON Pleistocene of South America. Restoration by Wolff. Courtesy of Dr. Elliott animal, for the stump shows evidence of considerable wear after it was broken. This skeleton was found near Buenos Aires in Argentina along with the remains of gigantic ground-sloths (Megatherium) and tortoise-armadillos (Glyptodoji) which may well have been the prey of this most terrible of alltheCamivora. But the Smilodons ranged all over the New World, and like the nearly allied Machcerodus, which was distributed over all the northern continents, were contemporaries of primitive man. Whether our palaeolithic ancestors ventured to contend, with this gigantic foe, we do not know, but the structure of its skeleton indicates that, although more powerful than the lion and the
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