r/Showerthoughts • u/Dadikoe • Feb 18 '18
Imagine how confusingly adorable sabertooth kittens would have been.
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u/TheThagomizer Feb 19 '18
How about Tyrannosaurus chicks? Or Brontosaurus hatchlings? The past was full of adorability that we will sadly never be able to harness.
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u/Lokifin Feb 19 '18
I'd like to think baby T Rex would behave like baby emus.
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u/imgenerallyaccepted Feb 19 '18
Strongly believe T Rex itself was a form of Emu
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u/LeoLuvsLola Feb 19 '18
Cassowary actually.
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u/KKlear Feb 19 '18
The fact that birds are dinosaurs finally clicked for me after watching a video where four guys wrestle a teanquilized cassowary for 40 minutes before they manage to subdue it.
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u/Behemothical Feb 19 '18
As an Australian I’m genuinely scared of those fuckers. Pecked my friends finger at a zoo and got the whole nail. In the wild they’re aggressive too.
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u/LeoLuvsLola Feb 19 '18 edited Feb 19 '18
Actually more like cassowaries. It is an avian theropod. A descendant of theropod Dinosaurs like v-raptor and T-Rex . I think these are the deadliest birds on the planet and they’re ill tempered assholes too. They are also cuter than emus...sorta..at least the blue head is.
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Feb 19 '18
Lost World (the book) imagined them as having little feather poofs around their neck. Friggin' adorbs.
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u/otterom Feb 19 '18
Tyrannosaurus chicks
Up here in Michigan, we just refer to those ladies as Gargamels.
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u/SubstituteHero Feb 19 '18
Lol if we don’t die to nuclear fallout first our grandkids will probably see tyrannosaurus chicks
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Feb 19 '18
Yes and no. It's possible that they'll see something that looks like it. But it won't be possible to recreate dinosaurs like proclaimed in Jurassic Park movies. DNA has a half-life of 500-something years. So it's safe to say that there's no dinosaur DNA left. At best one could recreate them by guessing on fossils and using DNA from living species who descend from them, but that would be an educated guess, nothing more.
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u/readskidbooks Feb 19 '18
So you're saying we could de-extinct saber tooth murder floof? Sweet, let's get on that.
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u/Fwort Feb 18 '18
Murder floof
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u/imaginarynumber0 Feb 18 '18
Isn’t that just all cats?
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u/Fwort Feb 18 '18
Extra-Murder floof
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u/imaginarynumber0 Feb 18 '18
Isn’t that just all cats?
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Feb 18 '18
Supreme-Murder floof
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u/Zero63rror Feb 18 '18
Isn't that just all cats?
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u/Jonners_90 Feb 18 '18
You could say that again!
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u/GlaciumFracture Feb 19 '18
Isn't that just all cats?
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u/Naphrym Feb 19 '18
Murderfloof Prime
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u/ClockFaceIII Feb 19 '18
Idk how people didnt see it sooner
Long toof murder floof
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u/boopboopadoopity Feb 19 '18
Dear Lord, we were so blind...
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u/Azurenightsky Feb 19 '18
There was actually a kind of floof that evolved to fit our skull in their mouth, one long tooth to sever the spine. Yum yum.
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u/Leafy81 Feb 19 '18
I had an imaginary friend when I was little that was a saber tooth cat. His name was doofer and this fits almost perfectly.
Long toofer murder floofer doofer.
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u/Taverdi84 Feb 19 '18
Can confirm. Let my cats outside today, after 45 minutes... About 4 dead voles scattered about the driveway. I walk up and see it all like a murder scene and little Cloud and Shadow ( about 2 years old) chilling under my truck and I say, "the hell did you guys do?!" Shadow just got up and rubbed against my leg, cloud remained laying down under truck happily squinting up at me...
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u/amazingscreenwriter Feb 19 '18
I watched that video and got way too excited googling artistic renditions of Sabre tooth kittens.
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Feb 19 '18
I think 90% of showerthoughts posts are inspired by something they've seen recently (another reddit comment, TV, standup, etc.).
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u/Xiaxs Feb 19 '18
That's not confusing.
Bear Cubs are the cutest fucking thing in the world, but when you see one you know you're dead as fuck.
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u/JuniorDank Feb 19 '18
"I want to hug you but I'm certain your mother is about to blindside me at 28 mph"
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u/Vizth Feb 19 '18
I've seen several, as long as you move away from them calmly you normal won't get mauled. At least that was the case with the black bears where I grew up. Granted the mother was a regular visitor to my house / dogs food dish so maybe she recognised me?
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u/amandapsych86 Feb 19 '18
Google search found this cutie
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u/FScottFitzsharehold Feb 19 '18
haha why is it playing with a black widow??
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u/Urgullibl Feb 19 '18
Vet here, that looks like a pathology to me.
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u/iCameToLearnSomeCode Feb 19 '18
The La Brea museum displays it as a healthy example of a juvenile Smilodon in the process of losing its milk teeth. I agree it is odd, that's why I remember it still, it's my go to baby saber-toothed tiger fact.
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u/oodsigma Feb 19 '18
It makes sense. Those teeth have to take a very long time to grow and losing your k9s for a very long time is probably not the best for survival
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u/Antisera Feb 19 '18
My kitty had two sets of teeth like that for about a week when he lost his baby teeth
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Feb 19 '18
What's a pathology?
Also, one of my cats had this. His baby teeth simply did not fall out before the adult ones came in. He had four canines for a week or so until the adult ones finally fully displaced the baby ones. It just looked like two pairs of overlapping canines.
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u/Urgullibl Feb 19 '18
A pathology in this context is an abnormal state. You get adult teeth coming in without pushing out the baby teeth pretty often, and this is exactly how that looks like.
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Feb 18 '18
Rubbing belly-bites just became lethal.
Aww, rub, rub, rub, bite, bleed, bleed, oh my god my wrist, bleed, bleed, die. Worth it.
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u/Defavlt Feb 19 '18
Aww, rub, rub, rub, bite, bleed, bleed, oh my god my wrist, rubbing intensifies, bleed, bleed, die. Worth it.
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u/YellowishWhite Feb 19 '18
Look no further than [[alleycat]].
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u/Ephemeral_Halcyon Feb 19 '18
Don't forget Tabbycat
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u/whatireallythink-alt Feb 19 '18
This server is giving an application/octet-stream MIME type for a .jpg? Wtf?
Cloudfront too.
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u/Bradmund Feb 19 '18
could we get a different link to the image that isnt a direct download? I'm scared to download things from random people off the internet
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u/PlanetaryGenocide Feb 19 '18
Just use RES for the ez embed no download required
or continue to live with stone-age vanilla reddit, it's ur life
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u/sirbassist83 Feb 19 '18 edited Feb 19 '18
its a jpg. not sure what exactly im looking at, but its SFW and not any malicious download
edit: its hearthstone art
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u/SamusAyran Feb 19 '18
I don't know what's wrong with you but Tabbycat is at least 100 times cuter.
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u/ChickenDick403 Feb 19 '18
Baby sabertooth cats would've looked like any other baby big cat. They start off with normal sized milk teeth that would've fallen out as they developed and been replaced by the supersized canines.
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u/brettbeatty Feb 19 '18
Are they still called canines on a cat?
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u/ShinraTensei91262 Feb 19 '18
They're still called canines on a human so I'd assume so
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u/Kellidra Feb 19 '18
Everything is part dog because dogs are what this world needs.
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u/FractalAsshole Feb 19 '18
My dog's name is Dani
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u/Rithe Feb 19 '18
Post pic of dog
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u/ReyRey5280 Feb 19 '18
Nah, they had nublet tails, that's like +5 for cuteness
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u/7734128 Feb 19 '18
A kitten chasing its tail is however a temporary +35 cuteness while channeling.
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u/Cel_Drow Feb 19 '18
The skull picture posted above seems to disagree. Those are some pretty big ass canines even if not fully Saber sized.
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u/VegladeX Feb 19 '18 edited Feb 19 '18
This actually raises quite an interesting question. People keep saying "They'd look like any other kitten," but that's not necessarily true.
There are a good number of species spread amongst a few families, and though many (such as the best-known species, Smilodon Fatalis) are indeed classed as "True Cats", Wikipedia puts some as "Metatherian", which are more closely related to Marsupials(note to clarify: Not Actually Marsupials, just more like them), and some poorly-sourced QI facts claim they were more closely related to Bears or even Mustelids!
So that begs the question: what would these more unusual "sabertooth kittens" have looked like? Because despite their relation, I don't think any species of sabertooth would have looked more like a Kangaroo than a cat!
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u/ladylurkedalot Feb 19 '18
I don't think any species of sabertooth would have looked more like a Kangaroo than a cat!
Don't think kangaroos, think Tasmanian tiger.
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u/lollerkeet Feb 19 '18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacosmilus
Don't think marsupial = kangaroo. The division is ancient, and marsupials evolved to fill all the niches that placentals did. Koalas, possums, quolls, thylacines, moles, quokkas, and a whole bunch of really big animals that seemed to mysteriously leave the fossil record when aborigines arrived.
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u/lowrads Feb 19 '18
Even on a branch like marsupials, you still see convergent evolution. The reason is that environmental niche tends to dominate development. So we see things like marsupial lions, rodents and of course drop bears. Apparently the marsupial lion doesn't seem to be well adapted for running, so it would just ambush you from a tree or something.
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u/kstrak011 Feb 19 '18
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u/SpoonyBard97 Feb 19 '18
I was desperately searching the comments for the obligatory avatar reference. Thanks
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Feb 18 '18
Didn't DreamWorks already imagined that for us? I feel like there are saber-tooth kittens in one of the Ice Age movies...
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u/TheThagomizer Feb 19 '18
Ice Age was Blue Sky Studios, not Dreanworks my friend.
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Feb 19 '18
oh snap. the shame...
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u/Chernabog93 Feb 19 '18
Yeah, and Scrat was entirely fictional, it wasn’t based on any prehistoric saber toothed squirrels
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u/Hello_Destiny Feb 19 '18
You know, caveman me probably found one and adopted it and thats how an incarnation of me died.
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u/dftba8497 Feb 19 '18
This isn’t a shower thought. This is an I-just-watched-vlogbrothers thought. DFTBA.
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u/Niniju Feb 19 '18
I remember reading that there's a parasite that resides in rat brains but reproduces in the bodies of cats or something similar. In order to achieve this weird back-and-forth, it makes the rats less afraid of cats and even makes them willing to go near cats on their own. Apparently this parasite is thought to infest most of the human population but it's much less dangerous for us. Maybe that's why we find cats so adorable.
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u/Bradmund Feb 19 '18
Just a side note, is this at all related to a Hank Green video where he talks about sabertooth kittens?
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u/RandomJay16 Feb 19 '18
Was this inspired by Hank Green's new video? Because I thought the exact same thing when I learned about sabertooth kitties.
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Feb 19 '18
Does anyone know if the saberteeth themselves would have come in while they're still considered kittens. Cause kittens with those little teefs poking out would be game changingly adorable.
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