Paper Fang 1 Photos | Smilodon populator | 907

Paper Fang 1 Photos | Smilodon populator | 907

from roughly 30 cm square of white tissue - foil - yellow chiri unryu sandwich paper. you know what inspired me. walking with beasts =P color-changed fangs, belly and eyes. it's a closed back and locked belly model. smilodon was a fierce predator from the pleistocene (1.8 mya to 10,000 years ago) it was as big as recent lion, but more compact and with much more muscular shoulders, neck and forelegs. it was a robust and sturdy beast - it was one of the heaviest cats, as some speciemens of the Smilodon populator could have weighted over 300 kg or even up to 400 kg. the enourmous fangs were a limitation for the animal, it could only eat meat, (if the fang met a bone, it would break) leaving rich carcases for the (now declassed) terror birds like the famous phorusrhacos. but the fangs could be used for cutting the trachea and a cartoid artery, both in one bite, causing an immediate death of the prey. smilodons were native to north america, but as the south continent travelled to the north, it created a joint between the continents, so the cats were enabled to widespread in the south america, while their cousins were cousing trouble in texas and florida. smilodons fed on middle-sized to large herbivores such as macrauchenia. (it somehow resembled a vicugna with a short proboscis, but with overall much stranger appearance.)

This photo was taken on 2010-03-28 by Petr Stuchlý in Czech republic.

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