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Today I found out that it's impossible to draw a Barbourofelis from this angle without him ending up with a derp face.

So this nice fellow is basically the Miocene love-child of a bear and a lion with steak knives attached to its face. But it's pretty darn rad, and that skull is fairly terrifying.
Barbourofelis is another one of those weird sabre-toothed cats that actually isn't a true cat... depending on which textbook or paper you're reading, of course. The placement of nimravids and barbourofelids within the feliforms seems to be all over the place. I'm sure they were true cats a few years ago, and now they are not. Sometimes I just don't understand you, paleontology.

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Today I found out that it's impossible to draw a Barbourofelis from this angle without him ending up with a derp face.

So this nice fellow is basically the Miocene love-child of a bear and a lion with steak knives attached to its face. But it's pretty darn rad, and that skull is fairly terrifying.
Barbourofelis is another one of those weird sabre-toothed cats that actually isn't a true cat... depending on which textbook or paper you're reading, of course. The placement of nimravids and barbourofelids within the feliforms seems to be all over the place. I'm sure they were true cats a few years ago, and now they are not. Sometimes I just don't understand you, paleontology.