Links

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Here are some handy links to find some of the awesome prehistoric items and personalities on our Sabertooth's Pride sites. Many of these sites provided research materials on the various Primordials and were a great inspiration.

Look GRRRRrrreat in Sabertooth's Pride apparel!

Sabertooth's Pride at Cafe Press - Show your Pride on a variety of items! Our original Sabertooth's Pride smilodon by Muninn is available.

Join the Pride! Visit our on-line Sabertooth's Pride group and roar with the big cats.

Mark Hallett is a leading paleoartist whose work has appeared in museums, books, National Geographic, and now here in Sabertooth's Pride. Although he is best known for his awesome renderings of dinosaurs, Mark has a special place in his heart for ice age mammals.

Nature Artists raises funds for nature conservation through the sale of art. Be sure to look for Mark Hallett's paleoart on the site!

Schrecken's Art (carnefx.com) has the greatest faux taxidermy mounts anywhere. These are 100% synthetic creations made to resemble living, extinct, and fantasy animals.

Paleocraft has the largest selection of high quality prehistoric models that we've ever seen! Warning: viewing this site may cause excessive drooling and a desire to own every one...

Bone Clones creates museum quality fossil replicas at a fraction of the price of the genuine article. Dinosaurs, prehistoric mammals, and an incredible variety of living species can be found in their catalog.

http://www.grsites.com - great free backgrounds and tools for websites. The tigerstripe background and sound effects on these pages came from here!

Olduvai George - natural history illustrator Carl Buell's web page includes blogs and features his artwork. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like Mr. Buell has posted for a while but it is still worth a visit.

Messybeast is a privately maintained, not-for-profit archive of cat-related articles, information and clip-art. For research, it is an invaluable resource on cat related topics. It contains general interest articles ranging from cloning and genetics through to the role of cats in idiom and urban mythology.

Nimravid's Weblog - interesting scientific weblog about our favorite nimravids. This is a great site for more in-depth information on the subject.

YOUR GUIDE TO THE EPOCHS:

PALEOCENE EPOCH - 65 million years - 55 million years ago. It is the 1st epoch of the Cenozoic Era and marks the beginning of the "Age of the Mammals". Marsupials appear as well as the first creodonts. By the late Paleocene, Miacis - the ancestor of all carnivora - appears.

EOCENE EPOCH - 55 million - 33 million years ago. Rodents are the predominant small mammal. Early horse, elephants, and rhinos appear. The earliest meateaters, the creodonts, include several catlike species known as the oxyaenids. The middle Eocene gives rise to carnivores: the nimravids, but they aren't true cats yet.

OLIGOCENE EPOCH - 33 million - 23 million years ago. It is the third and final epoch of the Paleocene period. True felines (Proailurus) first appear.

MIOCENE EPOCH - begins 23 million years - 5 million years ago. It is the first epoch of the Neogene period. It is also the longest epoch of the Cenozoic Era, spanning 20 million years. The nimravids go extinct near the end of the Miocene. Pseudaelurus is the last common ancestor for felines and the machairodontinae. The marsupial Thylacosmilus appears in South America.

PLIOCENE EPOCH - 5 million years - 1.8 million years ago. It is the second and final epoch of the Neogene period. Hyaenas, thylacoleo, and early sabertoothed cats appear.

PLEISTOCENE EPOCH begins 1.8 million years ago and concludes with the end of the Ice Ages, about 10,000 years ago. In the early Pleistocene, Thylacosmilus -unable to compete with Smilodon - becomes extinct. By the late Pleistocene, the severe climate contributes to massive megafauna extinctions including the sabertoothed cats and thylacoleo.

HOLOCENE EPOCH - 10,000 years ago- modern times. The last sabertooth cats and cave lions became extinct near the beginning of this period. Most modern wild cats are dangerously close to extinction now.

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