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November 4, 2008
Hunted down by a PACK of Saber Tooth Tigers!
Sometimes science is no consolation - like when scientists decide to tell us that saber tooth tigers hunted in packs.
I had a La Brea tar pits book as a child; the sabertooths always gave me the cold collywobbles. I had the same reaction when I visited the museum there as an adult! they're scary beasts!
Posted by CrankyProfessor at November 4, 2008 8:05 AM
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Truly frightening. I live across the street from the La Brea tar pits, and their sabertooth cat logo is not going to look any friendlier this morning.
.....Eeek - have you ever seen the scary (psychologically) movie set in your neighborhood? "Bad Influence," James Spader and Rob Lowe. The tar pits play a key part in the movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099091/
--MCT
Posted by: JaneC at November 4, 2008 9:56 AM
The CBC's radio program Quirks and Quarks' did an episode on this interviewing Dr. Blaire Van Valkenburgh, on Nov 1, entitled 'Herding Sabre-Toothed Cats.' The episode is available in mp3 audio file format at http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/quirks_20081101_8807.mp3
Posted by: mike at November 5, 2008 5:17 PM