Sabre-toothed Cat

Field profile

Smilodon was a heavily built cat with enormously elongated upper canines and powerful forelimbs, roughly lion-sized in the species Smilodon fatalis but shorter-tailed and stockier. It is known from thousands of individuals recovered from asphalt seeps at Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles. It died out at the end of the Pleistocene.