. Animals before man in North America; their lives and times. Paleontology. The Life of Yesterday northward. The armadillo, peccary, ocelot, and jaguar, together with a few birds, are the prin- cipal relics of this time, although it left a more lasting impress on southern Florida in the shape of tropical vegetation. Beasts of prey were well represented by the last of the saber-toothed cats—great ani- mals almost the size of a lion, with wicked. Skull of the great saber-toothed Smilodon. looking, sharp-edged canines far larger than those of any modern carnivore. If these cats preyed upon the gr
. Animals before man in North America; their lives and times. Paleontology. The Life of Yesterday northward. The armadillo, peccary, ocelot, and jaguar, together with a few birds, are the prin- cipal relics of this time, although it left a more lasting impress on southern Florida in the shape of tropical vegetation. Beasts of prey were well represented by the last of the saber-toothed cats—great ani- mals almost the size of a lion, with wicked. Skull of the great saber-toothed Smilodon. looking, sharp-edged canines far larger than those of any modern carnivore. If these cats preyed upon the ground sloths, as Pro- fessor Cope suggested, the use of their enor- mous canine teeth seems evident. The sloths are covered with coarse hair implanted in a thick hide, and some of the mylodons were even protected by numerous small bones em- 257. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Lucas, Frederic A. (Frederic Augustus), 1852-1929. New York, D. Appleton and company
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