SABER-TOOTHED TIGERS 
edged, flattened fangs, projecting seven inches below the jaw. 
No record or tradition of it has survived, but its petrified bones 
have been found in caves and river gravels of the Quaternary 
period, with those of the mammoth, megatherium, and other 
extinct giants, and associated with the relics of the primitive 
men. In the pampas of the Argentine Republic, a rich store- 
By permission of the American Museum of Natural History. 
THE GREAT SABER-TOOTHED TIGER SMILODON. 
Restoration drawn by Wolf, under direction of Dr. Daniel G. Elliot. 
house of fossils, two entire skeletons have been recovered, one 
of which is mounted in the American Museum of Natural 
History in New York. 
“The restoration of an extinct animal might be supposed to be largely 
a matter of conjecture ; but in fact, when a perfect skeleton is at hand, 
and the artist has a knowledge of anatomy and of the form and habitual 
attitudes of its relatives, great certainty is possible. The general propor- 
tions can, of course, be accurately followed in the outline; the form of the 
head, position and size of the eyes and ears, the shape of the muzzle and 
width of the mouth, may be closely inferred from the characters of the 
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