Smilodon atrociter

[naamah_darling]

I occasionally -- very occasionally -- do line art, and thought I would share one of my favorite recent pieces. It's just a quick RPG visual aid/character sketch that turned out good enough to polish up, but I like it.

I wanted to design the saber-toothed cat to end all saber-toothed cats, the ne plus ultra of raging paleofeline death, but I didn

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[ex_avianity]

Man, just when I think you can't possibly get any MORE awesome, you come out with this. Absolutely *beautiful*.

[ex_ciannait]

Beautiful!!

[snowcoma]

Dude. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE. Dude.

That is made of very deadly win and very scary pie.

And the scientific name Smilidon populator makes me picture sabre-tooths in the quiverfull movement.

[naamah_darling]

Snork. Quiverfull smilodons. (The name actually translated to depopulator, which gives me a happy mental image of a smilodon-based reckoning of religious nutjobs.)

[goth_hobbit]

...a smilodon-based reckoning of religious nutjobs.

Dude, I would so write the score for that film.

[naamah_darling]

We could just film the damn adventure Sargon ran me through, because that was, now that I think about it, basically the entire plot.

[siliconshaman]

Jesus Christing Fuck! That's scary cat alright....and very very cool...

Annndd now the mad scientist in me is pointing out that we have near complete genomes for those species, thanks to decent preservation of the teeth. One could in theory create a living breathing version of this beastie...

Either way...very cool palaeontological fan-fic..

[naamah_darling]

BWAHAHA! Paleontological fan-fic. And yeah, that's exactly what it is, I suppose. LOL.

[goth_hobbit]

True; these features never coexisted in a single animal. But then, Spielberg was just trying to make a certain species of dromaeosaur into more of a badass -- until Utahraptor was discovered.

[naamah_darling]

AND THIS IS WHY I LIVE IN HOPE YOU SEE.

Ahem. Sorry. I went all capslock. But you're absolutely right, and yes, I've been idly daydreaming about that.

[galiyah]

That would be so freakin' cool.

[goth_hobbit]

Idly daydreaming? Pshaw! I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, you know. There was nothing idle about those daydreams, and you can't tell me otherwise.

(Well, okay, you can; but I reserve the right to be skeptical. Long-time reader, after all.) ;P