Sabre-Tooths Revamped
It has come to my attention that I have been drawing my sabre-toothed animals all wrong lately. Someone told me that in prehistoric days, when most sabre-toothed mammals as we know them, always had some kind of protection for their elongate canine teeth. It makes sense. I mean check out the ancient marsupial known as Thylacosmilus : Notice how the lower jaw has long folds for the canines to remain protected when the jaws are shut? This is an interesting feature, and would be good to keep the canines from breaking when the animal is relaxing. However, I found that these animals had a bite force that is weaker than that of a housecat. The reason is because their canines rooted so far back in their head that any intense pressure would have forced the roots of their teeth to put too much pressure on their brain cavity, or would have even crushed their brain. So, when creating any sabre-toothed futuristic beast, one has to take things like this in consideration. Well, I took the con...