Quick note! Though, I try to include as many depictions as possible, not everything makes the cut for one reason or another. I will likely start to include a sort of ‘honorable mentions’ section. That way, even more depictions can be included, and I bypass some reasons I have to cut out certain interpretations.
One that honestly i don't even know you knew about is Skyrim's smilodons And i say that in plural because there's a normal version and a snow version I think they're called sabre-cats in the game but they pretty much are identical to smilodons Edit: Oh yeah, there's also the Vale sabre-cat from The dawnguard DLC
I have one just in case: In the Lilo and Stitch series, an experiment has the ability to turn modern animals into prehistoric ones. It turns an elephant into a mammoth, a squirrel into a saber-tooth squirrel, and a tiger into a Smilodon. It also turns some other animal into a T-Rex (never revealed what they used).
I must say, in regards to the plain/stripes/spots issue, I think I heard somewhere that due to their primarily grassland environment, spots or plain seems to be considered be more likely/advantageous for Smilodon, since stripes are more beneficial in forests to help break up your silhouette under a canopy this missed interpretation is probably more obscure (and might not technically count), so I'm not surprised it didn't show up here, but in the american anime series RWBY (pronounced ruby), there are creatures called Grimm, basically monsters that are mostly based on fairy-tale or mythical creatures, but introduced in volume 7 were Grimm based on prehistoric creatures, one of them was called Sabyr (pronounced sabre), clearly inspired by Smilodon (but not Smilodon itself), as well as Megoliath (Woolly Mammoth), Centinal (Arthropleura), and Teryx (a kind of large Dromaeosaur with Pterosaur wings) p.s. you say Smilodon was ruined for you by Journey to 10'000 BC and Primeval, for me (in a different way) it was the documentary Prehistoric Predators, that first showed me that Terror Birds (one of my favourite non-Mesozoic groups of animals) weren't just punching bags for Smilodon like the hyenas (one of my favourite modern animals) in the Lion King, that they could actually fight back and probably come out on top in most encounters (when they coexisted that is), so when that specific scene happened in the first episode in Life on our Planet, as well as the implication that they were superior and had a large part in the Terror Bird extinction, that kind of tainted my first impression of the show, and my expectations of it going forward
Honorable Mentions: this is more recent but Power Rangers Dino Fury had a Green Sabertooth Tiger Zord Edit: I think there's also a season (Power Rangers Megaforce) where the Yellow Ranger's Zord is a Sabertooth Tiger bulldozer
For such an iconic prehistoric creature, I’m surprised Smilodon isn’t featured more often. My personal favorite depiction of the sabertooth is the iconic Walking With Beasts design. While aspects of their lifestyle might not line up with what we now know about them, I still think it’s hands down the best Smilodon yet put to screen.
Since Smilodon fossils are found in Central and South America, there seems to be a head canon where a majority of Smilodon in media are similar to Jaguar or Cougar in appearance
As much as I love Primeval their designs can be a bit hit or miss (especially in the later seasons) but I think their Smilodon is one of their best. I love the colors and patterning.
In ZT2: Extinct Animals, the Smilodon has a brown-spotted coat with a white underbelly similar to Prehistoric Kingdom's version, but - If you're lucky enough - you'll get a Leucistic or Melanistic version, when adopting Smilodon. In ZT1: Complete Collection, it has a brown coat and white underbelly. Overall, both designs of the animal in these games are pretty good. 😁
Finally Primal is featured in this series!!! Dude smilodon is such a cool creature, one of my personal favorite prehistoric beasts and animals overall. Love this series, keep up the great work!
Funny enough, in the Lilo and stitch series, they had a smilodon. There’s also the beasts of the Mesozoic line since they’re making a smilodon as well if you count those
Diego will always be favorite deception of Smilodon and that's cool, overall yet again this video was pretty great and I really hope you have a great day.
Very detailed compilation of Smilodon. It is such a popular creature that it's hard to include every single interpretation, but there are a couple not mentioned that can be considered honorable mentions. If you haven't seen them, you should. Smilodon was in Animal Planet's Giant Monsters with Jeff Corwin. Its animation model was identical to its cousin Megantereon from Before We Ruled the Earth; the only difference was the Smilodon had cougar-style fur while Megantereon had spots and stripes. Both looked really nice, though. There was also a pink Smilodon in an episode of the TV series Pink Panther and Sons. As a side note, it's worth mentioning that Diego's muscular pack member named Lenny is, according to tie-in material, really a scimitar cat (Homotherium). If we ever see a compilation of that particular cat, Lenny could make the list!
One thing almost all depictions of Smilodon ignore is that Smilodon wasn’t actually well-adapted for genuine ice age conditions in the way mammoths and woolly rhinos were: S. fatalis was outright poorly adapted for cold, dry, open climates and habitats and was a forest and woodland specialist that was at its best during the warmer interglacials, and even the more generalized S. gracilis and S. populator weren’t dependent on grassland ecosystems and could also thrive in swamps, jungles, woodlands, etc. It’s ironic that the most iconic “ice age” animal of all was an animal more associated with interglacial habitats, especially given when it went extinct. Oh, and most docs conflate all 3 Smilodon species as being samey when they’re not (aside from the habitat differences, S. gracilis wasn’t a dominant predator due to there being two much larger predators around for the first part of its existence; and S. populator was a bit more cursorial than S. fatalis, though not to pursuit predator levels).
Great Video! Saw your highlighted comment & I'd like to share some interpretations of Smilodon that didn't make the cut but that I'm at least aware of: -Mark D. Wolf's Age of Mammals (A stop motion animated documentary that focuses on the Cenzoic Era & some of it's creatures; mostly mammals. Smilodon is depicted here, first attempting to hunt a Glyptodon but failing, then successfully managing to kill a Megatherium) -Wild New World/Prehistoric America (A BBC documentary that focuses on North American fauna during the Ice Age. I haven't seen the full documentary series but I've seen clips of it. It's made by the same animation company that made Monsters We Met/Land of Lost Monsters; so it re-using many of the same models, including Smilodon) -Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (A Smilodon Skeleton was seen coming to life in the film) -Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series (Season 2 Episode 11: Retro/In the episode, one of Stitch's cousins turns a Zoo's Tiger into a Smilodon) -Giant Monsters with Jeff Corwin (A special that aired on Animal Planet & was hosted by Jeff Corwin. In one segment, Jeff encounters a Smilodon, which chases him up a tree. Later, a group of them fight a Megatherium over a carcass. The model for the Smilodon was re-used for a Megantereon in another documentary; Before We Ruled) -Prehistoric Predators (A documentary series from National Geographic. One episode focused on the North American: Smilodon fatalis. Smilodon gracilis made a minor appearance in another episode that focused on Terror Birds) -Zoo Tycoon Franchise (Smilodon was one of the various adoptable creatures in both Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs & Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals) -Animal Crossing Franchise (Introduced in Animal Crossing: Wild World & continuing to their most recent game; The skeleton of Smilodon can be dug up & donated to the Museum) -The Velvet Claw (An animated documentary that focuses on predators; Smilodon makes a few appearances in it) -Natural History Museum Alive with David Attenborough (A special hosted by David Attenborough in which he discusses many of the specimens at the London Museum of Natural History. Smilodon makes an appearance in the special but unlike many of the other animals features, it only comes to life as a skeleton) -Dinotopia Franchise (Smilodon has only made a few brief appearances throughout some of the books. It appeared as statues in Land Apart from Time but made a physical appearance in Journey to Chandara. Smilodon made a larger appearance in a side series book; Sabertooth Mountain) -Calvin & Hobbes (In one strip; Calvin's family go to a Natural History Museum and briefly see a model of a Smilodon) -Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (The first episode of the series featured a creature known as a Raxshir. It's appearance is heavily based on that of Smilodon & other saber-toothed cats) -Time Warp Trio (S2E9: Caveman Catastrophe/A Smilodon appears briefly in this episode.)
I clicked on this just to see if you would mention Sinbad and the eye of the tiger. :) Glad you did. Also there was a 90s cartoon named Cro, that featured a saber-tooth in theme song and a couple of episodes
When I was a kid I played Zoo Tycoon 2 a lot and the smilodon in that was always one of my favorite animals to have in my zoos. Always had to had a few, forget lions or tigers in my zoo I wanted smilodons.
I loved Monsters We Met! The short-faced bear Arctodus simus was fascinating. And of course anything from Walking With is always top tier, even if it's outdated 20 years later.
That depiction is one of the better ones too, though it does have a couple of usual Smilodon depiction issues and also argues in favour of the discredited Clovis Comet hypothesis to explain megafaunal extinctions.
The model of Smilodon that was used for Monsters We Met originated in a BBC TWO series called Wild New World as well as the Mammoths, Mastodon and Ground Sloth.
Smilodon is my all time fav but there is one design that I love most and is not on this list and had me facinated with this awesome cat is the Prehistoric Predators documentary and everytime I saw this I loved it.
Great video!! If I might make a recommendation, I think you’d like the animal designs in One Piece- there’s a group of characters who can transform into dinosaurs, including smilodon!
It's a shame that the Age of Mammals wasn't mentioned here, but it's a mini documentary that not many people know much about. I had it on VHS along with Dinosaurs: The Terrible Lizards on the same tape.
Great Video on Smilodon, i also been calling it a Sabre Tooth Tiger ever since i found out of the Animal in Ice Age when i was 10 years old at the time. I loved that film to Death ^_^ Another one interpretations was in an Anime called, Dinozaurs. it was more of a Transformer-Dinosaur Anime of a group of Resurrected Prehistoric Animals (Dinosaurs/Pterosaurs/Cenozoic/Marine Reptiles) become Dino Knights and their planet from evil Dragozaurs. it was a Dinosaur like Anime i watched as a kid long before Dinosaur King, which i also love too.
It's perfect. I go to research Smilodon for paleoart purposes, check some Mauricio Anton pieces, get some references, watch some jaguar and bear hunting videos to get an idea between the two how they might subdue prey, and then you come out with this. Absolutely lovely.
For the Primal Smilodon the ones who appear in Echos of eternity the opening, with Spear's backstory the Smilodon there are most likely S. Populator, while the one in The Night feeder was either S. Gracilis or S. Fatalis.
Sabertooth and Attack of the Sabertooth are not connected in any real way beyond their chosen creature. Both are reasonably solid creature features from the early to mid 2000 SciFi and are worth watching.
Awesome video!!! Also I think why Smilodon was called the Sabertooth Tiger is like how JellyFish are called well, JellyFish, even tho JellyFish are even farther apart to fish than Smilodon was to Tigers
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You can encounter "sabertooth cats" which are clearly based on smilodon. They live in tundra & taiga-like areas, they're slighly smaller than bears, and they're solitary
You're right about Smilodon's taxonomic affinities. Smilodon is part of the Machairodontinae subfamily, while tigers and other extant big cats are members of the Pantherinae subfamily.
15:00 ok what a coincidence! My grandfather also recorded a lot of documentaries for me when I was kid! Now of course, the VHS or DVD's of them no longer work but many of them I have as a new DVD or I can find online.
Hey there! So with Power Rangers there’s actually 3, with the show Dinocharge in an episode with Dakota (who is a caveman who got frozen in time) there’s a flashback to where he fights off a Smilodon
Also, is it just me or have cats as a group remained surprisingly unchanged for their entire 30 million year existence (far more so than sharks, crocodylomorphs, etc)? Literally the first cat ever was an ambush-hunting grappling hypercarnivore and almost every other cat since (save Homotherium) has stuck to that bauplan with a few variations (“ambush predator but bigger”, “ambush predator but bigger, with sabreteeth and more flexible neck”, “ambush predator but really fast in short bursts”, etc).
Something to possibly include in an Honorable mentions thing: technically, Anguirus (might be spelled wrong) from the Godzilla franchise is an ankylosaurus interpretation.
When you do these Many Interpretations videos you should include things like plushies and toys. They may not be media but they definitely count as interpretations.
Quest for Fire is a genius film, it was actually filmed before multiple humaties was a proven fact and film "predicted" a lot of cool things - sapiens wearing ochre, mating between species, some more advanced than others, kinda predicted denisovans, landscape where they all could cross rach other etc A lot of inaccuracies, but still, for 1981 film really cool)
After looking at the extended gumline out of every original Smilodon skulls that I've seen so far, I have a theory their long saber-like canines won't be showing much at all. It will be partially covered with their lips.
Dose anyone remember Sabretooth (November 27, 2000; Discovery Channel) it was really cool they made a robotic jaw and bit into Buffalo carcass it was a very interesting documentary I absolutely loved! I have it recorded on VHS
I feel like Zoids would be a good addition to these. Zoids have been around for forty years now, so you’ve got Zaberfang as the older design, and Fang Tiger from Zoids Wild as a new one. Zoids would be good for velociraptor and T. rex because velociraptor has Gun Sniper, Rev Raptor, Gilraptor, but T. rex in zoids has Garius from the very first line and Death Saurer, both “kangaroo” style, then geno saurer/breaker, bio tyranno, and death Rex for updated stances. But maybe I’m the only one who hopes for zoids to be included in anything.
God I recall seeing those horror movie Sabertooths when I was younger. Curiously they spelt those movies Sabretooth and Attack of the Sabretooth instead of Sabertooth and Attack of the Sabertooth. Maybe they were avoiding copyright? I dunno. As for whether these movies are related I don't know. I see stuff claiming they're connected and seen stuff claiming they're not. They're b movies made in the early 2000s so info on them is lost to time. Amusingly for Attack of the Sabretooth there was 3 Saber Tooth Tigers. A slightly smaller female, a slightly larger male and a one ton freak that could only move by dragging itself on its front two legs. Neat they acknowledged that a Sabre of that size would have trouble moving. I really want a new horror movie focused around a Saber Tooth Tiger. They're a perfect horror movie choice. Just imagine being in the dark and all you hear is the low growl before a flash of those pearly white teeth.
There was also one in a Episode of Dan vs (At least I think it was a Smilodon. Looked at least a lot like one). I think it was in that Episode where his Cat was stolen because it belongs to a rare Breed
How would you feel about doing a terror bird video? All this talk about saber teeth and their relation to terror birds like Phorusrhacos is making me want a video starring it.
Hey I am greenrex15 and this is my first time responding on your channel and I just wanted to say that I loved your prehistoric animals interpretations and I love smilodon because for a long time it has been one of my favorite Cenozoic mammal predators of all time and there are so many interpretations of the animal that’s awesome!🐅🦣
Never seen you mention the 2006 strategy game ParaWorld (no surprise as it is kind of forgotten in these modern times). Maybe take a look for a future episode? There are a lot of nice colour/pattern designs in my humble opinion.
i do find it interesting that one thing super common for smilodon is to depict it with a pantherine skull, despite their skulls being thinner laterally.
Would the Bantha from Star Wars count as a Slurposaur? It was supposedly an elephant with a fur coat and horns, like the world's biggest pantomime horse.
11:18 Since you mentioned the Aladdin TV series, I'll mention that there's also a T. Rex that appears in two episodes as the main antagonist for those appearences. A rex also appears in The Little Mermaid series and the Tarzan series, as well as a couple of other dinosaurs in the latter. I know that video is likely already overflowing with entries, but I thought I'd at least mention it, since you like to see the animated depictions of these creatures
Great creature which for some reason I haven’t seen to much of it recently. Also I was wondering if you could do a many interpretations video about tarbosaurs
I think mostly everyone's first time seeing it in media was ice age. Even though i think it's very inaccurate with the certain animals living in that time period.
You missed Page One from One Piece. He is a member of Beast Pirates who transform into a sabertooth tiger. His design features plain coat and a long tail. He never did went full beast mode. Only fought in human-beast mode.
Even though it's basically the same design as the Monsters We Met model, Smilodon also appeared in Wild New World/Prehistoric America. Also just like with Alpha, the "Sabertooths" from Quest For Fire are actually Cave lions with saber teeth (because a regular ol' lion [or cave lion] isn't terrifying enough apparently 🙄)
Quick note!
Though, I try to include as many depictions as possible, not everything makes the cut for one reason or another.
I will likely start to include a sort of ‘honorable mentions’ section. That way, even more depictions can be included, and I bypass some reasons I have to cut out certain interpretations.
One that honestly i don't even know you knew about is Skyrim's smilodons
And i say that in plural because there's a normal version and a snow version
I think they're called sabre-cats in the game but they pretty much are identical to smilodons
Edit: Oh yeah, there's also the Vale sabre-cat from The dawnguard DLC
I have one just in case: In the Lilo and Stitch series, an experiment has the ability to turn modern animals into prehistoric ones. It turns an elephant into a mammoth, a squirrel into a saber-tooth squirrel, and a tiger into a Smilodon. It also turns some other animal into a T-Rex (never revealed what they used).
Honorable mention: Zaber Fangs!
I must say, in regards to the plain/stripes/spots issue, I think I heard somewhere that due to their primarily grassland environment, spots or plain seems to be considered be more likely/advantageous for Smilodon, since stripes are more beneficial in forests to help break up your silhouette under a canopy
this missed interpretation is probably more obscure (and might not technically count), so I'm not surprised it didn't show up here, but in the american anime series RWBY (pronounced ruby), there are creatures called Grimm, basically monsters that are mostly based on fairy-tale or mythical creatures, but introduced in volume 7 were Grimm based on prehistoric creatures, one of them was called Sabyr (pronounced sabre), clearly inspired by Smilodon (but not Smilodon itself), as well as Megoliath (Woolly Mammoth), Centinal (Arthropleura), and Teryx (a kind of large Dromaeosaur with Pterosaur wings)
p.s. you say Smilodon was ruined for you by Journey to 10'000 BC and Primeval, for me (in a different way) it was the documentary Prehistoric Predators, that first showed me that Terror Birds (one of my favourite non-Mesozoic groups of animals) weren't just punching bags for Smilodon like the hyenas (one of my favourite modern animals) in the Lion King, that they could actually fight back and probably come out on top in most encounters (when they coexisted that is), so when that specific scene happened in the first episode in Life on our Planet, as well as the implication that they were superior and had a large part in the Terror Bird extinction, that kind of tainted my first impression of the show, and my expectations of it going forward
Honorable Mentions: this is more recent but Power Rangers Dino Fury had a Green Sabertooth Tiger Zord
Edit: I think there's also a season (Power Rangers Megaforce) where the Yellow Ranger's Zord is a Sabertooth Tiger bulldozer
For such an iconic prehistoric creature, I’m surprised Smilodon isn’t featured more often. My personal favorite depiction of the sabertooth is the iconic Walking With Beasts design. While aspects of their lifestyle might not line up with what we now know about them, I still think it’s hands down the best Smilodon yet put to screen.
Couldn’t agree more. WWB was the series that opened up my love for sabre-toothed cats as a kid!
Shira is honestly the prettiest design. Very unique in terms of the white coloring. I wish they did more with the character
Since we're also doing mammals, the many interpretations of Glyptodon/Dodecirus would be cool
And the mammoth next!!$
Since Smilodon fossils are found in Central and South America, there seems to be a head canon where a majority of Smilodon in media are similar to Jaguar or Cougar in appearance
Smilodon isn't getting talked that much about recently, Im glad this video changes that. Good video!
As much as I love Primeval their designs can be a bit hit or miss (especially in the later seasons) but I think their Smilodon is one of their best. I love the colors and patterning.
I SEE PRIMEVAL SMILODON IN THE THUMBNAIL, I CLICK
Same. It made me happy to see that “Primeval” was included. On an unrelated note, I also was happy that “Dino Dana” was included.
@@TheWarriorWithDucks the Dino Dana design looks absolutely gorgeous so it would've been a shame not to include it
It is a badass sabertooth!
Yay! You added Diego! By the way, love the video! Smilodon really needs more acknowledgement!
A surprisingly diverse catalogue. You can have such a variety of cat depictions.
In ZT2: Extinct Animals, the Smilodon has a brown-spotted coat with a white underbelly similar to Prehistoric Kingdom's version, but - If you're lucky enough - you'll get a Leucistic or Melanistic version, when adopting Smilodon. In ZT1: Complete Collection, it has a brown coat and white underbelly. Overall, both designs of the animal in these games are pretty good. 😁
12:26 No way a Legends of Chima mention
That was an unexpected surprise , but a welcome one.
Lil sad the sabertooth from Skyrim didn't get brought up but like you always say not every interpretation can make the cut.
Finally Primal is featured in this series!!!
Dude smilodon is such a cool creature, one of my personal favorite prehistoric beasts and animals overall.
Love this series, keep up the great work!
Funny enough, in the Lilo and stitch series, they had a smilodon. There’s also the beasts of the Mesozoic line since they’re making a smilodon as well if you count those
This guy has a dad and a bro kind of personality, love it ❤
Diego will always be favorite deception of Smilodon and that's cool, overall yet again this video was pretty great and I really hope you have a great day.
13:54 Catwoman scolding the sabertooth
lol 😂😅
Very detailed compilation of Smilodon. It is such a popular creature that it's hard to include every single interpretation, but there are a couple not mentioned that can be considered honorable mentions. If you haven't seen them, you should.
Smilodon was in Animal Planet's Giant Monsters with Jeff Corwin. Its animation model was identical to its cousin Megantereon from Before We Ruled the Earth; the only difference was the Smilodon had cougar-style fur while Megantereon had spots and stripes. Both looked really nice, though.
There was also a pink Smilodon in an episode of the TV series Pink Panther and Sons.
As a side note, it's worth mentioning that Diego's muscular pack member named Lenny is, according to tie-in material, really a scimitar cat (Homotherium). If we ever see a compilation of that particular cat, Lenny could make the list!
One thing almost all depictions of Smilodon ignore is that Smilodon wasn’t actually well-adapted for genuine ice age conditions in the way mammoths and woolly rhinos were: S. fatalis was outright poorly adapted for cold, dry, open climates and habitats and was a forest and woodland specialist that was at its best during the warmer interglacials, and even the more generalized S. gracilis and S. populator weren’t dependent on grassland ecosystems and could also thrive in swamps, jungles, woodlands, etc.
It’s ironic that the most iconic “ice age” animal of all was an animal more associated with interglacial habitats, especially given when it went extinct.
Oh, and most docs conflate all 3 Smilodon species as being samey when they’re not (aside from the habitat differences, S. gracilis wasn’t a dominant predator due to there being two much larger predators around for the first part of its existence; and S. populator was a bit more cursorial than S. fatalis, though not to pursuit predator levels).
I imagine it would have been fine in forests, especially redwood and conifer, plenty of cover for it to hunt and shelter in.
Great Video!
Saw your highlighted comment & I'd like to share some interpretations of Smilodon that didn't make the cut but that I'm at least aware of:
-Mark D. Wolf's Age of Mammals (A stop motion animated documentary that focuses on the Cenzoic Era & some of it's creatures; mostly mammals. Smilodon is depicted here, first attempting to hunt a Glyptodon but failing, then successfully managing to kill a Megatherium)
-Wild New World/Prehistoric America (A BBC documentary that focuses on North American fauna during the Ice Age. I haven't seen the full documentary series but I've seen clips of it. It's made by the same animation company that made Monsters We Met/Land of Lost Monsters; so it re-using many of the same models, including Smilodon)
-Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (A Smilodon Skeleton was seen coming to life in the film)
-Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series (Season 2 Episode 11: Retro/In the episode, one of Stitch's cousins turns a Zoo's Tiger into a Smilodon)
-Giant Monsters with Jeff Corwin (A special that aired on Animal Planet & was hosted by Jeff Corwin. In one segment, Jeff encounters a Smilodon, which chases him up a tree. Later, a group of them fight a Megatherium over a carcass. The model for the Smilodon was re-used for a Megantereon in another documentary; Before We Ruled)
-Prehistoric Predators (A documentary series from National Geographic. One episode focused on the North American: Smilodon fatalis. Smilodon gracilis made a minor appearance in another episode that focused on Terror Birds)
-Zoo Tycoon Franchise (Smilodon was one of the various adoptable creatures in both Zoo Tycoon: Dinosaur Digs & Zoo Tycoon 2: Extinct Animals)
-Animal Crossing Franchise (Introduced in Animal Crossing: Wild World & continuing to their most recent game; The skeleton of Smilodon can be dug up & donated to the Museum)
-The Velvet Claw (An animated documentary that focuses on predators; Smilodon makes a few appearances in it)
-Natural History Museum Alive with David Attenborough (A special hosted by David Attenborough in which he discusses many of the specimens at the London Museum of Natural History. Smilodon makes an appearance in the special but unlike many of the other animals features, it only comes to life as a skeleton)
-Dinotopia Franchise (Smilodon has only made a few brief appearances throughout some of the books. It appeared as statues in Land Apart from Time but made a physical appearance in Journey to Chandara. Smilodon made a larger appearance in a side series book; Sabertooth Mountain)
-Calvin & Hobbes (In one strip; Calvin's family go to a Natural History Museum and briefly see a model of a Smilodon)
-Star Wars Tales of the Jedi (The first episode of the series featured a creature known as a Raxshir. It's appearance is heavily based on that of Smilodon & other saber-toothed cats)
-Time Warp Trio (S2E9: Caveman Catastrophe/A Smilodon appears briefly in this episode.)
I clicked on this just to see if you would mention Sinbad and the eye of the tiger. :) Glad you did. Also there was a 90s cartoon named Cro, that featured a saber-tooth in theme song and a couple of episodes
When I was a kid I played Zoo Tycoon 2 a lot and the smilodon in that was always one of my favorite animals to have in my zoos. Always had to had a few, forget lions or tigers in my zoo I wanted smilodons.
Thanks for including my PoT mods ! :D
I loved Monsters We Met! The short-faced bear Arctodus simus was fascinating. And of course anything from Walking With is always top tier, even if it's outdated 20 years later.
You forgot to include the one from “Prehistoric Predators”. I love that Cenozoic docuseries.
That depiction is one of the better ones too, though it does have a couple of usual Smilodon depiction issues and also argues in favour of the discredited Clovis Comet hypothesis to explain megafaunal extinctions.
I was hoping to see the sabre cats from Skyrim
The model of Smilodon that was used for Monsters We Met originated in a BBC TWO series called Wild New World as well as the Mammoths, Mastodon and Ground Sloth.
Amazing vid, glad smilodon is getting covered.
Beautiful cat by the way🐈
Smilodon is my all time fav but there is one design that I love most and is not on this list and had me facinated with this awesome cat is the Prehistoric Predators documentary and everytime I saw this I loved it.
17:57 yo I for-fucking-got about dino dana. I just got flashbanged with memories bruh
Wow! Never realized really how many interpretations of smilodon there are…
Great video!! If I might make a recommendation, I think you’d like the animal designs in One Piece- there’s a group of characters who can transform into dinosaurs, including smilodon!
Cat Cat Fruit, Model: Saber Tiger (allows the user to become a Smilodon or human/Smilodon hybrid)
It's a shame that the Age of Mammals wasn't mentioned here, but it's a mini documentary that not many people know much about. I had it on VHS along with Dinosaurs: The Terrible Lizards on the same tape.
Great Video on Smilodon, i also been calling it a Sabre Tooth Tiger ever since i found out of the Animal in Ice Age when i was 10 years old at the time. I loved that film to Death ^_^ Another one interpretations was in an Anime called, Dinozaurs. it was more of a Transformer-Dinosaur Anime of a group of Resurrected Prehistoric Animals (Dinosaurs/Pterosaurs/Cenozoic/Marine Reptiles) become Dino Knights and their planet from evil Dragozaurs. it was a Dinosaur like Anime i watched as a kid long before Dinosaur King, which i also love too.
Great video! There's also this TV series called "Zoo" which has a decent Smilodon, although it appears very little.
Loved that series. A shame they didn't do a third season.
It's perfect. I go to research Smilodon for paleoart purposes, check some Mauricio Anton pieces, get some references, watch some jaguar and bear hunting videos to get an idea between the two how they might subdue prey, and then you come out with this. Absolutely lovely.
For the Primal Smilodon the ones who appear in Echos of eternity the opening, with Spear's backstory the Smilodon there are most likely S. Populator, while the one in The Night feeder was either S. Gracilis or S. Fatalis.
Sabertooth and Attack of the Sabertooth are not connected in any real way beyond their chosen creature. Both are reasonably solid creature features from the early to mid 2000 SciFi and are worth watching.
Awesome video!!! Also I think why Smilodon was called the Sabertooth Tiger is like how JellyFish are called well, JellyFish, even tho JellyFish are even farther apart to fish than Smilodon was to Tigers
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. You can encounter "sabertooth cats" which are clearly based on smilodon. They live in tundra & taiga-like areas, they're slighly smaller than bears, and they're solitary
Great video! Can we get a sauropod (brachiosaurus or apatosaurus) interpretations video?
You missed out Smilodon from Prehistoric Predators, which has 2 designs btw. Also, the saber cat from Skyrim is worth mentioning.
Finally, the most famous paleo kitty
It's in Zoo Tycoon and Wildlife Park too
I am shocked Zoids wasn't mentioned. The Saber Fangs look a lot like Smildons
You're right about Smilodon's taxonomic affinities. Smilodon is part of the Machairodontinae subfamily, while tigers and other extant big cats are members of the Pantherinae subfamily.
I abslutely loved the Prehistorik park smilodon episode as a child, the colouration and pattern is one of my favorite with prehistoric kingdom skin
I reallky like this series, and you are GOING TO tyrannosaurus! What if you do a utahraptor? That would be awesome
15:00 ok what a coincidence! My grandfather also recorded a lot of documentaries for me when I was kid! Now of course, the VHS or DVD's of them no longer work but many of them I have as a new DVD or I can find online.
i appreciate that you dont just discount any of these fossil fighter designs. ive loved dinosaurs my whole life and its a really great game!
Hey there! So with Power Rangers there’s actually 3, with the show Dinocharge in an episode with Dakota (who is a caveman who got frozen in time) there’s a flashback to where he fights off a Smilodon
Also, is it just me or have cats as a group remained surprisingly unchanged for their entire 30 million year existence (far more so than sharks, crocodylomorphs, etc)? Literally the first cat ever was an ambush-hunting grappling hypercarnivore and almost every other cat since (save Homotherium) has stuck to that bauplan with a few variations (“ambush predator but bigger”, “ambush predator but bigger, with sabreteeth and more flexible neck”, “ambush predator but really fast in short bursts”, etc).
Ambush predator but small(house cats and wildcats)
The ankylo video gave me hope for zt species ) :
So you're a Star Wars fan? Well, I don't have a collection, but I do have a dinosaur collection, and Jar Jar is part of it
Something to possibly include in an Honorable mentions thing: technically, Anguirus (might be spelled wrong) from the Godzilla franchise is an ankylosaurus interpretation.
Awwwe, Ahsoka is very cute :3 Give her some cuddles from me
I think you should include Fossils & Archeology mod for Minecraft in these videos one day.
Don’t forget about the Prehistoric Predators interpretation. From the National Geographic documentary series.
When you do these Many Interpretations videos you should include things like plushies and toys. They may not be media but they definitely count as interpretations.
Quest for Fire is a genius film, it was actually filmed before multiple humaties was a proven fact and film "predicted" a lot of cool things - sapiens wearing ochre, mating between species, some more advanced than others, kinda predicted denisovans, landscape where they all could cross rach other etc
A lot of inaccuracies, but still, for 1981 film really cool)
After looking at the extended gumline out of every original Smilodon skulls that I've seen so far, I have a theory their long saber-like canines won't be showing much at all. It will be partially covered with their lips.
Dose anyone remember Sabretooth (November 27, 2000; Discovery Channel) it was really cool they made a robotic jaw and bit into Buffalo carcass it was a very interesting documentary I absolutely loved! I have it recorded on VHS
I feel like Zoids would be a good addition to these. Zoids have been around for forty years now, so you’ve got Zaberfang as the older design, and Fang Tiger from Zoids Wild as a new one.
Zoids would be good for velociraptor and T. rex because velociraptor has Gun Sniper, Rev Raptor, Gilraptor, but T. rex in zoids has Garius from the very first line and Death Saurer, both “kangaroo” style, then geno saurer/breaker, bio tyranno, and death Rex for updated stances.
But maybe I’m the only one who hopes for zoids to be included in anything.
God I recall seeing those horror movie Sabertooths when I was younger.
Curiously they spelt those movies Sabretooth and Attack of the Sabretooth instead of Sabertooth and Attack of the Sabertooth. Maybe they were avoiding copyright? I dunno.
As for whether these movies are related I don't know. I see stuff claiming they're connected and seen stuff claiming they're not. They're b movies made in the early 2000s so info on them is lost to time.
Amusingly for Attack of the Sabretooth there was 3 Saber Tooth Tigers. A slightly smaller female, a slightly larger male and a one ton freak that could only move by dragging itself on its front two legs. Neat they acknowledged that a Sabre of that size would have trouble moving.
I really want a new horror movie focused around a Saber Tooth Tiger. They're a perfect horror movie choice. Just imagine being in the dark and all you hear is the low growl before a flash of those pearly white teeth.
There was also one in a Episode of Dan vs (At least I think it was a Smilodon. Looked at least a lot like one). I think it was in that Episode where his Cat was stolen because it belongs to a rare Breed
How would you feel about doing a terror bird video? All this talk about saber teeth and their relation to terror birds like Phorusrhacos is making me want a video starring it.
I thought of Booster when buying the Hammond Giga and only seeing the Hammond Therizinosaurus in stock on Target lol
There's a channel 4 documentary called extinct and one of those episodes talks about the sabertooth cat, and there also prehistoric predators too
HOLY SHIT DINO DANA MENTION PEAK VIDEO 🔥 🔥 🔥
Hey I am greenrex15 and this is my first time responding on your channel and I just wanted to say that I loved your prehistoric animals interpretations and I love smilodon because for a long time it has been one of my favorite Cenozoic mammal predators of all time and there are so many interpretations of the animal that’s awesome!🐅🦣
May the force be with you
Smilodon did pop up in Power Rangers Dino Fury
Never seen you mention the 2006 strategy game ParaWorld (no surprise as it is kind of forgotten in these modern times). Maybe take a look for a future episode? There are a lot of nice colour/pattern designs in my humble opinion.
It has also appeared in quite a bit of fantasy media
Prehistoric park is the fucking best series in existence
I hope you'll do a review of the sabertooth movies.
PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON THE MOST AWESOME DINOSAURS... TERROR BIRDS!!!!!
13:18 Fun fact: there’s also a _Garfield_ game on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, where, on one level, you play as a Saber-toothed Garfield.
Can’t wait for the many interpretations of T. rex dude 😊
i do find it interesting that one thing super common for smilodon is to depict it with a pantherine skull, despite their skulls being thinner laterally.
Would the Bantha from Star Wars count as a Slurposaur? It was supposedly an elephant with a fur coat and horns, like the world's biggest pantomime horse.
11:18 Since you mentioned the Aladdin TV series, I'll mention that there's also a T. Rex that appears in two episodes as the main antagonist for those appearences. A rex also appears in The Little Mermaid series and the Tarzan series, as well as a couple of other dinosaurs in the latter.
I know that video is likely already overflowing with entries, but I thought I'd at least mention it, since you like to see the animated depictions of these creatures
Humbly requesting more appearances of Ahsoka the cat please!!
Have you seen Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger? It has a Smilodon too.
aww, Asoka looks like a little marshmallow
also really surprised with this video, lot of shows i never watched here
Great creature which for some reason I haven’t seen to much of it recently. Also I was wondering if you could do a many interpretations video about tarbosaurs
Suggestion: The many interpretations of Archaeopteryx
Smilodon mae an appearance in the show, "Zoo".
You and your wife should try to check that out.
Omfg it finally happened smilodon mentioned!!!
I think mostly everyone's first time seeing it in media was ice age. Even though i think it's very inaccurate with the certain animals living in that time period.
they were also smilodon in TES V: Skyrim, but they were pretty standard
Smilodon is a cool animal.
I remember Zoo Tycoon having a smilodon.
I remember Zoo Tycoon 2 NOT having one, but it's been some time.
You missed Page One from One Piece. He is a member of Beast Pirates who transform into a sabertooth tiger. His design features plain coat and a long tail. He never did went full beast mode. Only fought in human-beast mode.
I was hoping you would include Chima’s Sabertooth Tribe
Ahsoka is very cute
A Smilodon appeared in an episode of Mighty Max as the villain of the week.
Even though it's basically the same design as the Monsters We Met model, Smilodon also appeared in Wild New World/Prehistoric America.
Also just like with Alpha, the "Sabertooths" from Quest For Fire are actually Cave lions with saber teeth (because a regular ol' lion [or cave lion] isn't terrifying enough apparently 🙄)
PK undoubtedly wins for me. Same as you, that grey and orange one is so aesthetically pleasing.
Saberleomon deserved at the very least a mention