One of the coolest Fossil in the world

One of the coolest fossils, A Machairodus sabre-toothed cat jaw from Gansu province china. The canine teeth are the large ones whilst the incisor teeth are the smaller once.

Fascinating how well preserved they are.

Movies such as 10,000 B.C, ice, age, the Croods, and even the Flintstones have popularized the smilodon of the La Brea Tar Pits of 1.6 million to 10,000 years ago.

However, it was dwarfed by the machairodontine species, which lived in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North From 11.6 mya-126,000 years ago, and existed for about 11.5 million years between the Miocene and the Pleistocene.

M.hottibillis of china is the largest known species of the genus with only a recently described  Smilodon populator skull rivalling it in size with it outweighing M.horribilis at 440kg.