That's a fantastic film! I think donating to nonprofit organizations which have things in common with each video is a wonderful and thoughtful idea. This was an excellent video. I think it's possible for "undiscovered" cats to be out there, maybe even with larger than average canines. I've had a few cats myself with cute canine teeth that peeked out a bit. My cat Dr. Scarabus (Dewey) was a Dracula. His upper canines were huge! ❤😿RIP my little man.
If evolution is truely real. and Controled Breeding can create whole new Breeds and animal types. Then what if all the so Called Criptids in the world are real creatures that have only been around for a few Decades or just a few centeries?
One of the coolest things I ever saw was a cat in Egypt that had round ears. I was in Luxor, walking along the Nile north to Karnak temple. There were, at the time, homes along the river made of corrugated metal , plastic, car doors and even hieroglyphic stone. Kids were playing around a fire near one and they had a pet cat, normal size, a gray tabby with perfectly round ears.
I found a sabertooth cat of some kind depicted in a Roman mosaic. It had long fangs, short tail, and a pattern unlike any other cat species. I also found depictions of the pygmy straight tusked elephants that were once found on Mediterranean islands, but supposedly at least 10k years before Rome.
This is why the idea that elephant skulls were the source of cyclops legens never sat with me. From hunting mammoth for millenia to the familiarity with the smaller Mediterranean elephants and access to both African and Asian elephants there is literally no rational way this confusion happened.
@@jamestaylor3805 pretty harsh talking about yourself like that mate, did you need therapy? Happy to pay for your first time. Hope you get the help you need one day. No one should be in as much pain as you are. You are obviously blindsided by facts though.
The saber-tooth trait seems to have worked, not just for felids; maybe we are witnessing convergent evolution. The niche is still open. The clouded leopard is trying to fill one.
We really neet to keep the cat populations at a healthy level, it would be a shame if no saber toothed cats evolve due to the brutality and greed of humanity.
I would love for saber cats to still be around, hiding and staying as far away from humans as they can. I remember reading years ago a study on some lions that were growing longer canines, the scientists speculated that saber teeth might be re-evolving. So some of these sightings, I think, might just be aberrant forms of known big cats that have just grown immensely longer canines for some reason. Which would also be cool since it would be evolution in action, something we can see in living creatures instead of just in the fossil record.
Evolution isn't real it's a theory. A Sabretooth tiger was hunted to extinction by man and had a variation of DNA that was lost to a lion or a tiger or even a leopard. Now if somehow Sabretooth tigers somehow were left alone in a lost region of earth that man isn't mastered yet or conquered they're dead and long gone. You can't take a poodle and expect to breed it with another dog and get a wolf.
Clouded leopards from South East Asia and Borneo, which are the smallest members of Pantherinae subfamily, possess by far the longest canine teeth relative to body size among all living felidae, and the widest mouth gape as well. In particular, the Borneo clouded leopard (which is a separated species) has proportionally the longest teeth. They even possess skull proportions which are quite similar to those of Smilodon. They could be considered, with good reason, like being a possible pathway for a future re-evolution of sabertooth cats.
As far as i am aware Sabre toothed traits have evolved separately with "Sabre toothed cats". So the trait can disappear then reappear eons later. So it would seem possible. If the mutation for sabre teeth worked for the cat in it's environment and gave it an advantage.
I recall an old episode of Rescue 911 where a boy was attacked by an animal, they said the wounds and description of the animal matched a saber toothed cat. This was late 80's, early 90's.
I came across this video randomly. I grew up in AZ. I'm 67 years old. In 1979 I was in college and an avid hiker and photographer. One weekend in winter I went out to the Chirachowa Mountains for a long day hike. I followed a dry ravine deep into the mountains until it turned into a small stream. I stopped there to eat and just enjoy the beauty. There was a rock ourcrop across the creek from me. I had that errie feeling of not being alone. I gazed around and saw what I took to be a young cougar up on that ridge. But it was subtly stripex, like a tabby car. The fur wSas brown and tan. It had huge paws and when it saw me watching it, it opened its mouth with long teeth. It was terrifying. I stiid up and grabed a long dried paloverde branch on the ground and waved it. The cat backed up and sprang away. I had pepper spray with me and nothing else. I started walking back beating the brush around me. All was well but Ive always wondered what I saw. I still think it was young. After seeing your video I had to share.
😮 those are the encounters I love hearing about, just normal people caught off guard in rural isolated wilderness! The Southwest United States has a lot more desolate wilderness for animals to hide!
As always, this was impeccably researched and produced. Thank you for your brilliantly balanced approach. Your videos are far more journalistic and credible than most big budget productions I see these days - certainly better than 99% of anything I see on Netflix etc. You rock
A saber tooth cat had powerful forearms to grapple down the prey, they went for the throat, they had a very muscular neck that help thrust the saber teeth like daggers, the bite must be very precise so not to break the long canines. Once the bite is placed the teeth sever the windpipe or jugular and the prey dies. They saber tooth cat is muscular almost like a bear, so he is good at grappling but the bite has to wait for the throat, it simply isn’t designed to nip, tug or “fight”, it is a throat cutter!
Unfortunately for them, it's not advantageous overall. Fossil records show tons of breakage, which would leave the animal disabled for life because of one misadventure. There's a reason that everytime it pops up it quickly gets eliminated from the gene pool. The only animals that keep large canine teeth are those that use them for behavioral displays or for sparring or digging, not for predation; it's a terrible idea to invest your entire ability to eat on two bulky, fragile teeth that definitely wouldn't live as long as the rest of your body could. Cats don't need to cut your throat to kill you, and investing in that is unsuccessful and wasteful. Cheetahs, for instance, crush your throat without even needing to use their teeth.
My family had a cat whose teeth overlapped his bottom jaw. They were huge, but no sabertooth of course. It was pretty cool though. He was a big boy, but lean and his muscles also showed through his coat. He was also a great hunter, but a real softy with the family. Didn't ever use his claws on us, not once. We loved Pedro. He's the pet that I miss the most.
I doubt they are actual sabertooth cats, but like you suggested, I think that there being (officially!) undiscovered cats isn't unlikely. I think it's more likely to be a reappearance of the long tooth trait rather than sabertooths.
I am assuming that you are talking about smilodon (saber toothed tiger of which there were 3 different species) in your comment, to be exact (so far) there have been over 30 types of saber tooth cats found in the fossil record. Saber teeth evolved over and over again and are still evolving today.
There is a rare cat in S America, slightly smaller than the jaguar, that has teeth longer than the jaguar. I saw it in a TH-cam just this last week and my brain won't remember its name but they showed one in captivity. If you took a ocelots skull and made it bigger and the large spots were "dragged" into big ovals. A very long and graceful cat. They said it had separated from other cats at least a million years ago. I live in TN and for years Wildlife officers have told us that the big cats that have been sighted in rural areas are our imaginations making bobcats look like cougars. My friend saw one jump out of her barn loft. She was at one entrance of the barn and the cat jumped down silhouetted in the other door at 50 feet at dusk. She had been loosing a chicken a night. The cat ran off and she ceased to lose chickens. The cat was cougar sized. Last year a radio collared cougar left the Rocky Mountains and traveled to New York. So yes I believe people when they tell me they saw a cougar in the Eastern US.
I believe gabelgy8361 is correct about which cat you are describing. Clouded leopards are gorgeous and one of my favorite wild cats. They're from S.E. Asia and have the longest canines relative to size of all of the big cats. They are like modern day saber-toothed cats. They have a similar skull structure to smilodons. I think that's really neat! What's really cool about them is that they can hang down from branches with their back feet and catch prey. Very few animals are able to climb down trees headfirst, let alone do that!
I'm a big fan of the cryptid topic,yet I don't recall ever hearing of saber-toothed cats falling into this category,in fact,I was very surprised when I read the title of this video. Never heard of those accounts,and I hear you,felines are sneaky,and some small subspecies could have survived hidden around the world,but,I gotta say,in this case,I'm extremely skeptical
Sabertooths are one of the most oddly widespread cryptids across the world, people must really like them. Great video and overview of the cryptids! I always liked the explanation that they evolved independently to fill niches (or possibly one-off mutations) and weren't surviving smilodons
A sabertooth is not a crypted. Encrypted is a fictitious animal in which a conspiratorial group believes to be living somewhere within remote portions of Earth's ecosystems. Bigfoot, the lock desk monster, The chupacabra, dragons, the Jersey devil and so on and so forth are cryptids. A animal that previously existed for nearly half a million years and have been extinct for thousands are not cryptids. Please stop confusing and conflating them as such. The meaning of words matter.
Awesome video, even has me thinking "well...maybe they're still out there", but sort of like the Tasmanian Tiger, any that are out there are keeping such a low profile that odds are most of these stories are a mistaken identity due to any number of factors. When out in the bush especially at night, well...light, or lack thereof, can play funny games with your eyes even with military grade nightvision gear (speaking as a US Army veteran who has used that stuff). Now I do appreciate that bit where "the local authorities said...." because that would make a bit of sense. The mythos surrounding sabertoothed cats is quite large, and even in some areas to this day have some deep seeded superstitions. So letting "the cat out of the bag" as it were might be a terrible idea.
I just discovered your channel recently and am amazed with the effort of research put into the video. I like how you also include visual references and dont jump to conclusions when discussing a topic like this. I think donating some money to charity would be a great idea, especially fitting if it relates to the video. I look forward to your new videos! 😊
Several native tribes of the Amazon rain forest believe in a creature that fully fits the description of a Saber Tooth Cat.Sightings are fairly common and persistent.But who knows?
I'm in Kentucky and we regularly have sightings of black panthers across the state. I saw one walking along the interstate in Pikeville in 1998 at about 3:00am.
Here in NE oklahoma my dad saw a huge black cat cross the road he said the tail was extremely long and the cat was huge. There's tons of accounts like this around oklahoma and Texas. The game wardens are lying about them being real. 100s of people have claimed to see them all over the south.
Fun video, I appreciate your skepticism. Cryptids are fun to think about but plausability almost always falls apart at the merest application of evidence and logic
There are some definite exceptions to this. One is the thylacine, which should not actually be called a cryptid at all, as it definitely existed and we know a fair bit about it. Also the reported sightings are very numerous, very widespread across Tasmania and the Mainland, frequently very high quality and remarkably consistent. The fault in this case, and in quite a few others I think, lies with ridiculously narrow scientific evidence protocols which can be traced back to very faulty philosophy of science!
@@keithprice475 You saying that science has strict rules? You want science to just throw it's hands in the air and just say "fuck it, if more than 3 people claim to have seen an animal, it exists. No more evidence needed" The fact that a cryptid believer is complaining that science requires too much evidence, then science got it right.
Not just what creatures may be out there but negotiating the dark has many physical dangers as I nearly found out when crossing over Snake Pass across the Pennines in Britain when my companions wanted to strike out across the fields to the distant town lights, I cautioned them and it was good advice as in the light of day there was a deep ravine completely hidden by the dark. I wonder of that's why many creatures evolved to sleep at night just to keep out of harms way.
It’s been said that Northern Africa and the Middle East were largely unaffected by the Younger Dryas mass extinction event that caused the Pleistocene megafauna to disappear at the end of the last ice age. So who knows?
The Pleistocene epoch is entirely unsustainable. It’s just a lie like Santa Clause delivering presents on Christmas. Whenever “they” say something is and/or occurred millions of years ago in time, I just chuckle and lose interest knowing that I’m reading NWO lies.
Great video, appreciate the research and images and of course the beautiful video backdrops of the landscapes throughout the video. You put a lot of work into this and not shows, thank you 🙏
There is a species of "sabertooth cats" that is still in existence today but seemingly goes undiscussed. The clouded leopard has canines that are more than twice the length (for body size) of any cat species. Just look at some photos of the clouded leopard.
Many sightings of big cats here in the England. Most can be rightfully dismissed as large house cats, but some photos do actually show very large cougar size cats either fawn or black in colour. Black dogs the size of ponies too with red eyes. 'Beware the moors and stay on the road!' 😂👍🏴
The sightings were absolutely confirmed they did some DNA testing on some fur found a while back late spring of this year they were confirmed to be a species of leopard. Possibly released from a zoo. The fur was found on some barbed wire fence.
@@keithprice475 direct, for sure. My reason for believing Papua may have a population of thylacine is nobody is looking for them there, a thought to be extinct dog was just discovered there, and locals claim a large jawed dog with a long tail lives alongside the rediscovered singing dog. Forrest galante is planning an expedition to look for it there.
@@keithprice475 I'm pretty skeptical of Australian sightings. After all, if they survived in Australia they must have been more numerous in the past, yet all the specimens for zoos and museums for the thylacine came from Tasmania.
I live 2+ miles deep on a big Texas ranch. One of the only fears I have at night is from cougars. Especially when I can hear one down by the creek. Im glad they aren't saber toothed cougs...Ha!
Great video as always. I find it mighty dubious that a lot of these sightings happened in the 60's. The existence of living saber toothed cats is unlikely, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
It would seem very unlikely for agree but i think it’s important to wrap your head around how incredibly remote certain areas are. There are even areas so remote that humans continue to be completely uncontacted by modern civilization
@@grugg5353when the first man saw a panda bear, in the deep dense areas, nobody believed him and it took 60 years for the panda to be recognized as a real creature
Too many Flintstones episodes to watch back then, I guess? Dino!! Lol. No, smilodons or sabertooth tigers have been extinct since the last ice age. They are nowhere to be found today.
Big cats have been living wild here in the UK for decades and they have remained completely illusive, if they can do it in a country the size of the UK then im sure big cats sould do it in these environments.
An old woman distantly related to me had a cat whose canines were way too long to be kept inside of his mouth. That cat needed to be allowed to breed to keep that trait. But he sadly wasn't.
I loved this video! (Sorry I just watched it haha.) it’s true that cats are very sneaky. The footage you had was all so cute. Loved the little saber tooth black cat. And it’s really cool that you went looking for the iriomote!
Just like the state of Kansas denies there are cougars in the state (despite several being shot throughout the state), and says any seen are escaped pets. Really? All biologist deny there are melanistic cougars anywhere, despite dozens of eyewitness reports. My husband and I are two of these witnesses. Driving home one night in a very sparsely populated area that was nothing but pasture lands for miles, we saw two black cougars taking down a deer on the highway. Because of the long straight stretch of highway, we were able to see the deer from quite a distance and slowed the truck as we approached, and stopped completely a few yards from it. It took a few seconds to recognize what we were seeing, and why the deer wasn't fleeing. One cougar hung beneath it's neck, mouth clamped onto it's throat, the other hanging from the rump. It took a couple more minutes for the deer to go down, then the one that had it by the throat began dragging it off the road. The second one then moved up beside the other and we could see it was smaller. I believe it was a mother and nearly grown cub. We were so surprised by what we had seen, we just sat there after they disappeared into the darkness. We reported the next day and the game warden laughed and told us to just say no to drugs. I'm a nurse, I don't do drugs, and wouldn't have a husband who did. There are cougars in Kansas and some of them are solid black.
I've really never understood why authorities worldwide are so quick to shut down "it was a black cat" Like if you described it as pure white they would have been all "oh wow an albino cougar? We should get after it for science!" But the idea of a black puma, despite them being almost completely identical to a panther, is absolutely impossible to them.
I have often wondered how sabertooth cats could hunt. Unless their mouths opened as wide as a hippo, they couldn’t chomp down on large prey. You gave two suggestions that may explain any success these odd animals had. First, the strong front legs that would allow them to pin their prey as they used their large teeth to severe arterial veins. The other is the notion that only the male cats had saber teeth. We know that lionesses do the primary hunting in their species. That would explain how the males were able to feed after the kill was done.
Purely anecdotal here, but I think there is a recessive gene or mutation that can cause a saber tooth appearance that still exists in some feline populations. When I was a kid, a stray cat wandered into our farm and had kittens. One of them had exceptionally long upper canines when he grew up. They actually projected below his jaw and gave him the appearance of a teeny-tiny saber tooth. If whatever mutation he had was not unique, then it's entirely possible that someone might see a bobcat or a leopard or whatever that has the same trait. I'm more inclined to think "mutant specimen" than "fossil relic"
It’s not a “mutation’ ( an abnormality) it’s a recessive gene that occurs infrequently. Few animals have even one of the trait, so to have 2 parents both be able to pass it on is even more rare.
lol sounds like they locals were describing a Tasmania tiger with the white stripes, short tail and short ears plus they had big jaws and teeth i pretty sure
Super awesome video and greatly researched on possible surviving sabertoothed big cats or mutations and ecomorphologies. It’s fascinating how many accounts there are, even semi aquatic ones, very peculiar and very intriguing.
- 'closest to' doesn't mean 'are'. Clouded leopards are not sabretooth cats, so sabretooth cats do not exist today - you are the second person I've read to state clouded leopards are the closest. If you mean by relatedness; no, ALL extant cats are equally related - if you mean in regard to relative canine size, that's fair enough, but that's a single trait comparison
The saber-tooth gene is still around. I had a white-and-orange kitty, with unusually large canines. They extended about 1/16 inch below the bottom of his jaw---which technically made him a "saber-tooth".
I would say they dont exist anymore but there's an authentic picture of some kind of animal that perfectly resembles a Thilacine that a woman took in her yard. Some people say its just a dog but if you look at the tail, its not a typical dogs tail. So, with such a discovery, i dont know. Theres also a video of a HUGE, HUGE wolf that a dog is barking at and the dog tries to attack the wold--bad idea. The wolf bit the dog but didn't kill it. The wolf in that video is HUGE
The biggest fear of the dark is not as a result of saber tooth tigers or other predatory animals out thede, it is the fear of another more cunning, more deadly adversary- human beings. Not even the champawat tiger comes close to predatory humans.
14:30 - I think it's obvious that the big cat seen by Senegal hunters was the Caspian tiger. Caspian tigers were often traded in the North African regions, and many of them were reported to have escaped captivity into the wild. Caspian tigers are obviously striped, as described. In ancient times, the Romans often pitted the Caspian tigers in death matches against the lion (Barbary lions) and the tiger almost always won.
Decades ago when I was a child here in Central California, our little town was attacked every other day by a large female mountain lion, she killed around 16 chickens, a goat, at least 1 dog, and maybe a few cats. When she started coming out in the day to try and attack the chicken pen on our property my father dropped her with his pig gun, a rifle that fires 44 magnum. She's buried probably around 1500 feet from where I'm sitting now, down in the river area.
My grandma and great grandma both seen one while herding sheep and they described the tracks as near human this was when I was younger though I think 7 or 8
Several years ago I lived in Oklahoma and out of my back door I seen a black panther on the south edge of Town. It was about a 50 pound cat it walked towards me within 50yards stopped and looked at me for several seconds and then bolted off into the trees. I don’t know if there are any saber tooth tigers left alive or not but it would not surprise me if they were alive
The skeleton at 1:05 is incorrect. Felines have digitigrade legs. Meaning they stand and walk on their digits (toes) That skeleton is standing on plantigrade legs, (meaning the feet are planted flat on the ground), like a bear, weasel, or primates etc. On the front legs, the feline joint, equivalent to the wrist, can't bend in that direction. I thought experts reconstruct these things 🤔. There is no partial plantigrade, as far as I know. Excellent video! I have been fascinated with potential of the Ennedi Tiger, of the Ennedi Mountains, for a long time! I want to go there, on an expedition. There is another mystery feline in Africa too! It is apparently dark, like a grey, with spots. Ugh I forget where that is sighted. I loved your realistic, scientific take on this! Having an advanced degree, I get frustrated seeing "cryptid" channels discuss this, the day after their " Real Dogman Sightings" video lol
The difference between the sabre-tooth tiger and Tasmanian tiger is that the Tasmanian went extinct less than a hundred years ago and the sabre-tooth went extinct thousands.
I’m a 43yr old man. I’ve been shot multiple times, stabbed once, and spent the first half of my life in and out of prison. I’ve never admitted this to ANYONE, ever. I am afraid of the dark. Don’t know why. But I leave a light on at night when I go to bed. I can not handle being in the pitch black. Terrifies me.
That's pretty interesting I'm guessing a lot of these accounts are probably true and what seems likely to me is that some cats have a recessive gene a throwback to different ancestors and sometimes it shows up in Modern Cats I could totally believe that a sabertooth could show up in maybe a lot of cat species like that cute little black cat.
I live in S TX where we are told by the wildlife experts that there are NO jaguarundis left. They did an in depth, two year study of the area and found not even a trace. Nope, none, nada, zero, zilch. Now my coworkers and I would laugh at this finding about once a month as we would watch one saunter across the road or follow one across a bridge. While they are not big animals, neither are they tiny, and they don't seem to be nearly as shy as one would be led to believe. If these kitties can hide in plain sight while being sought out, just imagine what other felines might manage when no one is even looking for them.
It also seems that there is potential for a recessive saber-tooth trait for liger (lion-tiger) hybrids. Some examples of which are in captivity. But I'm not sure if those can viably reproduce, due to being a not-so-natural mix of two species that normally don't mate. If anyone wants to find at least one known current example, one can go through information and pictures of those. Since it's a known animal, I'm not sure it counts as a cryptid. It's just an unusual trait that can occur with that mix.
I was thinking the same thing I thought that we could be ligers or tigons and they have terrible genetic displacements which can make them move peculiarly or almost not at all. If they were hybrids they could effectively look different from all directions. I have friends in the sanctuaries around the world who have taken in some. It's a heartbreaking prospect because they can't hardly stand up with the weight that they have and complications with balance but some of these descriptions are beginning to sound a bit like that. It's a very interesting video and very appreciated.
My mini lion has the same hanging canines hanging from her mouth, making her a small smilodon. Sadly I don’t think the original smilodon are around today.
Most adults are scared of the dark also. That’s why we have street lights all over causing tremendous amounts of light pollution and denying us the ability to see the stars
I don't know about Smilodon, but I am convinced from an encounter that I, my brother, my cousin and my best friend had in 1980 in southwestern Missouri. We were spelunkers and often had to hike to get to our caves. One time on a 120°F day, we were disoriented and each of us thought that we knew the way was different than the rest. We suddenly hear a loud angry growl. We were young, 3 of us from the Cherokee Nation and had no fear and the other one so religious that he had zero fear of anything. My cousin calmly said, "That's a bobcat." To which my brother calmly responded, "Or a mountain lion." Then an earthshaking RRRROOOOAAARRRR!!! happened and all of our feet agreed that the way we needed to go was opposite that horrifying roar! No discussion was needed! I have been within 30 yards of lions and tigers fighting and/or mating. A tigress if interrupted or becomes aware of an intruder goes berserk and will kill whatever or whoever intrudes. This roar was about 10 times louder than the lion and tiger roars!!! I researched this and am convinced it was a Panthera Atrox; the supposedly extinct American lion which was/is larger than the African lion. It couldn't be anything else other than a Smilodon. It was in the known range of Atrox. Plus, there were recent accounts of huge African lion or maneless African lion looking big cats in the area. The sheriff had a posse that hunted, killed and burned up the bodies of 4 such big cats. He didn't want hordes of crazies running around trespassing and causing trouble. He put out a heavy handed order to arrest anyone with a weapon not from the area or anyone armed and trespassing. That was the end of it. It was in the same part of the Ozarks we were in. I would love to have seen the one we encountered! It would have been a highlight of my life! It would probably have been the last thing I saw. No way to survive from an animal that could roar so loud!
When I was a kid scientists said certain turtles were extinct in New England but as a Grandpa I know of colonies of these turtles that are doing well in Massachusetts that were previously thought to be wiped out by humans eating them to extinction. Why couldn’t some of these smaller Sabertooth Cats not be hiding out in the wilderness where they might still have prey to survive on?
Are Sabertooth Cats Still Alive? Sure. I've got a Saber Tooth Skunk. Actually, it's a black & white cat that has a white stripe down the middle of her face, making her look a bit skunk like. And as far as the sabertooth part, she's the only domestic cat I've seen that has her fangs stick out about a 1/4" even when her mouth is closed. 🐈⬛
Unlike something akin to the Mokele-mbembe, Sabertooth Cats did live recent enough that they did overlap with Modern Species including Homo Sapiens (Modern Humans), so it's possible that there are some populations are still around until more recent times
Nah, the Mokele Mbembe isn't real. Trey the Explainer made a great video about it. The saber toothed tiger is more likely to still exist, but I still doubt it.
@@weakest_serb that's kinda my point. Dinosaurs as what most people would normally define as a Dinosaur are very ancient and greatly predates man. So the likely hood of a population existing to more recently without anyone evidence found is at best very slim, especially if we are talking about Sauropod Sized Creature. At the same time a population of Cenozoic Animals that are at most Lion or Tiger sized, and more importantly their known time being recent enough to overlap with Modern Humans. It more feasible for those types of creature to survive up to more modern times
I believe its more likely that an independent species now or in the future is gonna adopt the saberteeth. Smilodon was highly specialized hunter and they always dissappear after the main prey dissappeared. Eye witness testimony is one of the weakest form of evidence, if these cryptids existed, then how come we havent found groups of them or dna or anything at all. As for the thylaccine people saw it as a pest and hunted them all the way from early 1800 hundreds to early 1900 hundreds, the closer to 1930 it becomes those same hunters goes and says "we cant find them anymore". As fun as cryptids and extinct animals that are seen in modern times are to think about, they have barely any evidence to support them, which is a shame
In South Georgia. USA we have a cryptid called the Wampus Cat. I got to see it on a trip with our church youth. Bright red. With a mane, panther sized, very bright green eyes. And very intimidating.
@@wirelessone2986 Yes not six or a retractable claw. It was very similar to a lion, but incredibly bulked up and bright red. It was as red as the Georgia clay. It's eyes were a beautiful sparkly green. Mesmerizing but not transfixing.
I am a passionate lover of all cats and I would like to think that Saber tooth cats were still out there. But the planet has changed so much that I just don't know if they could adapt well enough. Plus given human nature... what would we do to them if we found out they were alive I am afraid we would just destroy them.
You should have used a trail camera to find that cat. The Saber tooth cat is kind of like Sasquatch. 2023 was a banner year for sightings, so much so that I am now starting to wonder why and of course the answer is their habitats are being squeezed, specially in California with all the big fires. There is a building body of evidence that they exist and yet they are so elusive. In this modern world of technology you would think there would be more. Some mutations can come from inbreeding and if they are an effective change for the better, I could see other cats developing larger teeth.
I swear you look at a spot right next to you then turn to TH-cam & ten seconds later you look back & the dang cat is laying there sound asleep like they'd always been there. Same thing in that you look away & they completely shift the direction they're laying without you noticing.
Footage at 1:30 from the film 'Quest for fire'
maybe try doing a vid on the mesozoic or permian extinction
That's a fantastic film! I think donating to nonprofit organizations which have things in common with each video is a wonderful and thoughtful idea. This was an excellent video. I think it's possible for "undiscovered" cats to be out there, maybe even with larger than average canines. I've had a few cats myself with cute canine teeth that peeked out a bit. My cat Dr. Scarabus (Dewey) was a Dracula. His upper canines were huge! ❤😿RIP my little man.
If true, I think it may be time for me and my 9.3 by 100 Custom Semi-Auto to schedule a little trip to Chad.
If evolution is truely real. and Controled Breeding can create whole new Breeds and animal types. Then what if all the so Called Criptids in the world are real creatures that have only been around for a few Decades or just a few centeries?
In answer to your question above: no
One of the coolest things I ever saw was a cat in Egypt that had round ears. I was in Luxor, walking along the Nile north to Karnak temple. There were, at the time, homes along the river made of corrugated metal , plastic, car doors and even hieroglyphic stone. Kids were playing around a fire near one and they had a pet cat, normal size, a gray tabby with perfectly round ears.
Likely the ears were cut and shaped to be round as a new born kitten similar to dogs having their ears cut as puppies on certain breeds
@@keltonchavis5983Some breeds have rounded ears.
@@keltonchavis5983I hate when people do that, it looks so ugly, deformed even.
Most big cats have round ears...
There is nothing unusual here. Some cats do have round eyes, especially the ones with short legs. ☝️🙄
I found a sabertooth cat of some kind depicted in a Roman mosaic. It had long fangs, short tail, and a pattern unlike any other cat species. I also found depictions of the pygmy straight tusked elephants that were once found on Mediterranean islands, but supposedly at least 10k years before Rome.
You might be interested to know, They've found carvings in Inca temples with those straight tusked elephants (and other types of elephants) as well.
This is why the idea that elephant skulls were the source of cyclops legens never sat with me. From hunting mammoth for millenia to the familiarity with the smaller Mediterranean elephants and access to both African and Asian elephants there is literally no rational way this confusion happened.
@@jamestaylor3805hunting mammoths 😂 maybe from time to time on random ones stuck in mud or something, we for sure didn’t hunt them on the usual
@@officialHbTcs tell me you don't know what you're talking about without telling me.
@@jamestaylor3805 pretty harsh talking about yourself like that mate, did you need therapy? Happy to pay for your first time. Hope you get the help you need one day. No one should be in as much pain as you are.
You are obviously blindsided by facts though.
The saber-tooth trait seems to have worked, not just for felids; maybe we are witnessing convergent evolution. The niche is still open. The clouded leopard is trying to fill one.
We really neet to keep the cat populations at a healthy level, it would be a shame if no saber toothed cats evolve due to the brutality and greed of humanity.
Evolution? Fooy
@@billytheman evolution is a basic mechanism of life, everything alive has to evolve.
@@williambuchanan77 what about the long list of pokemon that dont evolve?
@@johnmarkson1990 pokemon? what have you been smoking? or are you a creationist, brainwashed cultist?
I would love for saber cats to still be around, hiding and staying as far away from humans as they can. I remember reading years ago a study on some lions that were growing longer canines, the scientists speculated that saber teeth might be re-evolving. So some of these sightings, I think, might just be aberrant forms of known big cats that have just grown immensely longer canines for some reason. Which would also be cool since it would be evolution in action, something we can see in living creatures instead of just in the fossil record.
Evolution isn't real it's a theory. A Sabretooth tiger was hunted to extinction by man and had a variation of DNA that was lost to a lion or a tiger or even a leopard. Now if somehow Sabretooth tigers somehow were left alone in a lost region of earth that man isn't mastered yet or conquered they're dead and long gone. You can't take a poodle and expect to breed it with another dog and get a wolf.
I'd imagine if sabercats never truly went extinct, that due to evolution, they'd have an instinct to stay away from anything remotely human
Clouded leopards from South East Asia and Borneo, which are the smallest members of Pantherinae subfamily, possess by far the longest canine teeth relative to body size among all living felidae, and the widest mouth gape as well. In particular, the Borneo clouded leopard (which is a separated species) has proportionally the longest teeth. They even possess skull proportions which are quite similar to those of Smilodon.
They could be considered, with good reason, like being a possible pathway for a future re-evolution of sabertooth cats.
Look at this photo... not just the fangs length, but the gape too.
www.thewildlifediaries.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Clouded-leopard-in-Borneo.jpg
As far as i am aware Sabre toothed traits have evolved separately with "Sabre toothed cats". So the trait can disappear then reappear eons later. So it would seem possible. If the mutation for sabre teeth worked for the cat in it's environment and gave it an advantage.
I recall an old episode of Rescue 911 where a boy was attacked by an animal, they said the wounds and description of the animal matched a saber toothed cat. This was late 80's, early 90's.
Yeah people tend to exaggerate in extreme circumstances...
Mistaken with reno 911
I came across this video randomly. I grew up in AZ. I'm 67 years old. In 1979 I was in college and an avid hiker and photographer. One weekend in winter I went out to the Chirachowa Mountains for a long day hike. I followed a dry ravine deep into the mountains until it turned into a small stream. I stopped there to eat and just enjoy the beauty. There was a rock ourcrop across the creek from me. I had that errie feeling of not being alone. I gazed around and saw what I took to be a young cougar up on that ridge. But it was subtly stripex, like a tabby car. The fur wSas brown and tan. It had huge paws and when it saw me watching it, it opened its mouth with long teeth. It was terrifying. I stiid up and grabed a long dried paloverde branch on the ground and waved it. The cat backed up and sprang away. I had pepper spray with me and nothing else. I started walking back beating the brush around me. All was well but Ive always wondered what I saw. I still think it was young. After seeing your video I had to share.
😮 those are the encounters I love hearing about, just normal people caught off guard in rural isolated wilderness! The Southwest United States has a lot more desolate wilderness for animals to hide!
Catlike animals with very long incisors are in one of those niches that develop over and over again in evolution.
Source
Evolution is science fiction.
As always, this was impeccably researched and produced. Thank you for your brilliantly balanced approach. Your videos are far more journalistic and credible than most big budget productions I see these days - certainly better than 99% of anything I see on Netflix etc. You rock
Wow, thank you! You rock buddy!
A saber tooth cat had powerful forearms to grapple down the prey, they went for the throat, they had a very muscular neck that help thrust the saber teeth like daggers, the bite must be very precise so not to break the long canines. Once the bite is placed the teeth sever the windpipe or jugular and the prey dies. They saber tooth cat is muscular almost like a bear, so he is good at grappling but the bite has to wait for the throat, it simply isn’t designed to nip, tug or “fight”, it is a throat cutter!
Unfortunately for them, it's not advantageous overall. Fossil records show tons of breakage, which would leave the animal disabled for life because of one misadventure.
There's a reason that everytime it pops up it quickly gets eliminated from the gene pool. The only animals that keep large canine teeth are those that use them for behavioral displays or for sparring or digging, not for predation; it's a terrible idea to invest your entire ability to eat on two bulky, fragile teeth that definitely wouldn't live as long as the rest of your body could.
Cats don't need to cut your throat to kill you, and investing in that is unsuccessful and wasteful. Cheetahs, for instance, crush your throat without even needing to use their teeth.
My family had a cat whose teeth overlapped his bottom jaw. They were huge, but no sabertooth of course. It was pretty cool though. He was a big boy, but lean and his muscles also showed through his coat. He was also a great hunter, but a real softy with the family. Didn't ever use his claws on us, not once. We loved Pedro. He's the pet that I miss the most.
I doubt they are actual sabertooth cats, but like you suggested, I think that there being (officially!) undiscovered cats isn't unlikely. I think it's more likely to be a reappearance of the long tooth trait rather than sabertooths.
I am assuming that you are talking about smilodon (saber toothed tiger of which there were 3 different species) in your comment, to be exact (so far) there have been over 30 types of saber tooth cats found in the fossil record. Saber teeth evolved over and over again and are still evolving today.
There is a rare cat in S America, slightly smaller than the jaguar, that has teeth longer than the jaguar. I saw it in a TH-cam just this last week and my brain won't remember its name but they showed one in captivity. If you took a ocelots skull and made it bigger and the large spots were "dragged" into big ovals. A very long and graceful cat. They said it had separated from other cats at least a million years ago.
I live in TN and for years Wildlife officers have told us that the big cats that have been sighted in rural areas are our imaginations making bobcats look like cougars. My friend saw one jump out of her barn loft. She was at one entrance of the barn and the cat jumped down silhouetted in the other door at 50 feet at dusk. She had been loosing a chicken a night. The cat ran off and she ceased to lose chickens. The cat was cougar sized. Last year a radio collared cougar left the Rocky Mountains and traveled to New York. So yes I believe people when they tell me they saw a cougar in the Eastern US.
I seen the video too!!! Don't worry bro you ain't alone
One of my friends lives right outside Chattanooga and he claims that he's seen about 3 mountain lions
can u send video link please?
Clouded leopard is what it’s called
I believe gabelgy8361 is correct about which cat you are describing. Clouded leopards are gorgeous and one of my favorite wild cats. They're from S.E. Asia and have the longest canines relative to size of all of the big cats. They are like modern day saber-toothed cats. They have a similar skull structure to smilodons. I think that's really neat! What's really cool about them is that they can hang down from branches with their back feet and catch prey. Very few animals are able to climb down trees headfirst, let alone do that!
I'm a big fan of the cryptid topic,yet I don't recall ever hearing of saber-toothed cats falling into this category,in fact,I was very surprised when I read the title of this video.
Never heard of those accounts,and I hear you,felines are sneaky,and some small subspecies could have survived hidden around the world,but,I gotta say,in this case,I'm extremely skeptical
What makes u skeptical?
Sabertooths are one of the most oddly widespread cryptids across the world, people must really like them. Great video and overview of the cryptids! I always liked the explanation that they evolved independently to fill niches (or possibly one-off mutations) and weren't surviving smilodons
Indeed there were species that uniquely and convergently evolved saber teeth such as megantereon
A sabertooth is not a crypted. Encrypted is a fictitious animal in which a conspiratorial group believes to be living somewhere within remote portions of Earth's ecosystems. Bigfoot, the lock desk monster, The chupacabra, dragons, the Jersey devil and so on and so forth are cryptids.
A animal that previously existed for nearly half a million years and have been extinct for thousands are not cryptids. Please stop confusing and conflating them as such. The meaning of words matter.
I'm a simple man. I see Wild World video, I click. I like. I happy.
Thanks pal. I feel the same about your videos.
Awesome video, even has me thinking "well...maybe they're still out there", but sort of like the Tasmanian Tiger, any that are out there are keeping such a low profile that odds are most of these stories are a mistaken identity due to any number of factors. When out in the bush especially at night, well...light, or lack thereof, can play funny games with your eyes even with military grade nightvision gear (speaking as a US Army veteran who has used that stuff). Now I do appreciate that bit where "the local authorities said...." because that would make a bit of sense. The mythos surrounding sabertoothed cats is quite large, and even in some areas to this day have some deep seeded superstitions. So letting "the cat out of the bag" as it were might be a terrible idea.
I just discovered your channel recently and am amazed with the effort of research put into the video. I like how you also include visual references and dont jump to conclusions when discussing a topic like this. I think donating some money to charity would be a great idea, especially fitting if it relates to the video. I look forward to your new videos! 😊
Several native tribes of the Amazon rain forest believe in a creature that fully fits the description of a Saber Tooth Cat.Sightings are fairly common and persistent.But who knows?
You know it may be part of their ancient memory carried into the present
The Amazon is massive and dense, can you imagine a prehistoric species that only hunts at night...it can stay hidden for decades/centuries
I'm in Kentucky and we regularly have sightings of black panthers across the state. I saw one walking along the interstate in Pikeville in 1998 at about 3:00am.
That normal in KY.
After a night of drinking White Lightning.@@georgefaulk2528
Here in NE oklahoma my dad saw a huge black cat cross the road he said the tail was extremely long and the cat was huge. There's tons of accounts like this around oklahoma and Texas. The game wardens are lying about them being real. 100s of people have claimed to see them all over the south.
It’s just a melanistic mountain lion 😊
Fun video, I appreciate your skepticism. Cryptids are fun to think about but plausability almost always falls apart at the merest application of evidence and logic
Which is why so many people believe in them, they lack logical thinking.
Panda bear was a cryptid for 60+ years. So I say to you: "you suuure about that bro?"
There are some definite exceptions to this. One is the thylacine, which should not actually be called a cryptid at all, as it definitely existed and we know a fair bit about it. Also the reported sightings are very numerous, very widespread across Tasmania and the Mainland, frequently very high quality and remarkably consistent. The fault in this case, and in quite a few others I think, lies with ridiculously narrow scientific evidence protocols which can be traced back to very faulty philosophy of science!
@@shadf7902 Your argumeny is illogical. Saying "cryptid A was real therefore all cryptids must be real" is not how this works.
@@keithprice475 You saying that science has strict rules? You want science to just throw it's hands in the air and just say "fuck it, if more than 3 people claim to have seen an animal, it exists. No more evidence needed"
The fact that a cryptid believer is complaining that science requires too much evidence, then science got it right.
Not just what creatures may be out there but negotiating the dark has many physical dangers as I nearly found out when crossing over Snake Pass across the Pennines in Britain when my companions wanted to strike out across the fields to the distant town lights, I cautioned them and it was good advice as in the light of day there was a deep ravine completely hidden by the dark. I wonder of that's why many creatures evolved to sleep at night just to keep out of harms way.
A very well done video on a very intriguing subject, you obviously did your research. 👍😎
Thank you kindly
It’s been said that Northern Africa and the Middle East were largely unaffected by the Younger Dryas mass extinction event that caused the Pleistocene megafauna to disappear at the end of the last ice age. So who knows?
The Pleistocene epoch is entirely unsustainable. It’s just a lie like Santa Clause delivering presents on Christmas.
Whenever “they” say something is and/or occurred millions of years ago in time, I just chuckle and lose interest knowing that I’m reading NWO lies.
Was anyone you know alive to see it?
Also, sometimes (rarely) different species of cat interbreed and this brings out covered-up traits as in the liger's size.
Great video, appreciate the research and images and of course the beautiful video backdrops of the landscapes throughout the video. You put a lot of work into this and not shows, thank you 🙏
Glad you enjoyed it
There is a species of "sabertooth cats" that is still in existence today but seemingly goes undiscussed. The clouded leopard has canines that are more than twice the length (for body size) of any cat species. Just look at some photos of the clouded leopard.
Its still a species of big cat.
Many sightings of big cats here in the England. Most can be rightfully dismissed as large house cats, but some photos do actually show very large cougar size cats either fawn or black in colour. Black dogs the size of ponies too with red eyes.
'Beware the moors and stay on the road!' 😂👍🏴
The sightings were absolutely confirmed they did some DNA testing on some fur found a while back late spring of this year they were confirmed to be a species of leopard. Possibly released from a zoo. The fur was found on some barbed wire fence.
Moor cat was a black panther? That's what I heard from people here
Cannock chase has many dog man sightings
Don't stray from tha paarth
Moors are scary in England 🙈🤣
I really enjoyed your video on the possible existence of Smiladon. It would be nice to think a smaller Subspecies still exists. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨
This one seems both plausible and impossible at the same time, I would put the plausibility somewhere above a meg but below a thylacine. Great video.
Quite a distance below the thylacine, in fact, as there are many thousands of sightings of that, many of high quality!
@@keithprice475 that’s my point, I firmly believe thylacine is not extinct, especially likely In papua.
@@spcneary I think that quite likely too, but I think we have a lot more very good direct evidence from all over Australia.
@@keithprice475 direct, for sure. My reason for believing Papua may have a population of thylacine is nobody is looking for them there, a thought to be extinct dog was just discovered there, and locals claim a large jawed dog with a long tail lives alongside the rediscovered singing dog. Forrest galante is planning an expedition to look for it there.
@@keithprice475 I'm pretty skeptical of Australian sightings. After all, if they survived in Australia they must have been more numerous in the past, yet all the specimens for zoos and museums for the thylacine came from Tasmania.
That was cool, thank you was a long day and this lil piece helped me unwind and unplug 😊
I live 2+ miles deep on a big Texas ranch. One of the only fears I have at night is from cougars. Especially when I can hear one down by the creek. Im glad they aren't saber toothed cougs...Ha!
Great overview! I have reaserched these cryptids a lot, and you mentioned some sightings that I had no idea about! Thanks for sharing your analysis!
Love your vids, really good content 😺
Great video as always. I find it mighty dubious that a lot of these sightings happened in the 60's. The existence of living saber toothed cats is unlikely, but it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
It would seem very unlikely for agree but i think it’s important to wrap your head around how incredibly remote certain areas are. There are even areas so remote that humans continue to be completely uncontacted by modern civilization
@@grugg5353when the first man saw a panda bear, in the deep dense areas, nobody believed him and it took 60 years for the panda to be recognized as a real creature
@@shadf7902by western scientists
Too many Flintstones episodes to watch back then, I guess? Dino!! Lol. No, smilodons or sabertooth tigers have been extinct since the last ice age. They are nowhere to be found today.
Big cats have been living wild here in the UK for decades and they have remained completely illusive, if they can do it in a country the size of the UK then im sure big cats sould do it in these environments.
Never proven though...
And another thing in this world alot of land hasn't been discovered yet, so it's not so far fetched crazy to think wats all out there...
@@charlottemarsh2202 it is true, but only a few remain
@@JoMama___735 😢
Especially if they're nocturnal hunters and they stay in isolated wilderness, stranger things have happened 😮....
"Cats are sneaky as heck !" 🐅 (best quote)
An old woman distantly related to me had a cat whose canines were way too long to be kept inside of his mouth. That cat needed to be allowed to breed to keep that trait. But he sadly wasn't.
I loved this video! (Sorry I just watched it haha.) it’s true that cats are very sneaky. The footage you had was all so cute. Loved the little saber tooth black cat. And it’s really cool that you went looking for the iriomote!
Just like the state of Kansas denies there are cougars in the state (despite several being shot throughout the state), and says any seen are escaped pets. Really? All biologist deny there are melanistic cougars anywhere, despite dozens of eyewitness reports. My husband and I are two of these witnesses. Driving home one night in a very sparsely populated area that was nothing but pasture lands for miles, we saw two black cougars taking down a deer on the highway. Because of the long straight stretch of highway, we were able to see the deer from quite a distance and slowed the truck as we approached, and stopped completely a few yards from it. It took a few seconds to recognize what we were seeing, and why the deer wasn't fleeing. One cougar hung beneath it's neck, mouth clamped onto it's throat, the other hanging from the rump. It took a couple more minutes for the deer to go down, then the one that had it by the throat began dragging it off the road. The second one then moved up beside the other and we could see it was smaller. I believe it was a mother and nearly grown cub. We were so surprised by what we had seen, we just sat there after they disappeared into the darkness. We reported the next day and the game warden laughed and told us to just say no to drugs. I'm a nurse, I don't do drugs, and wouldn't have a husband who did. There are cougars in Kansas and some of them are solid black.
I can believe it
DNR needs to purge the idiots they've hired. A college degree can just mean "C to a degree" and it really shows when they're ignorant of nature.
I've really never understood why authorities worldwide are so quick to shut down "it was a black cat"
Like if you described it as pure white they would have been all "oh wow an albino cougar? We should get after it for science!" But the idea of a black puma, despite them being almost completely identical to a panther, is absolutely impossible to them.
@@callmeginga I wonder the same thing.
Shhh damn it. 😳 I'm in Berryton ks living in the country 1/3 mile back from the road.
Great video, love that you go in to sutch detail on eatch sighting
I have often wondered how sabertooth cats could hunt. Unless their mouths opened as wide as a hippo, they couldn’t chomp down on large prey. You gave two suggestions that may explain any success these odd animals had. First, the strong front legs that would allow them to pin their prey as they used their large teeth to severe arterial veins. The other is the notion that only the male cats had saber teeth. We know that lionesses do the primary hunting in their species. That would explain how the males were able to feed after the kill was done.
A tabby cat can virtually disappear almost anywhere, just by remaining still. Imagine a predator that was big as a horse with such stealth!
Like Drax, the destroyer😂
Nice video. I think a video on big cats and some mammal predators that went extinct or existed 1000 to 5000 years back would be nice.
Always love your cryptozoology videos, keep up the great work!
Can scientists genetically engineer a sabertooth cat back from extinction? From living big cats.
i say they will in the next 10 years an other ice age animals as well
Purely anecdotal here, but I think there is a recessive gene or mutation that can cause a saber tooth appearance that still exists in some feline populations. When I was a kid, a stray cat wandered into our farm and had kittens. One of them had exceptionally long upper canines when he grew up. They actually projected below his jaw and gave him the appearance of a teeny-tiny saber tooth. If whatever mutation he had was not unique, then it's entirely possible that someone might see a bobcat or a leopard or whatever that has the same trait. I'm more inclined to think "mutant specimen" than "fossil relic"
I saw a little black kitty cat with fangs, I said to it "you're a cute little vampire cat", it was scary looking but friendly
It’s not a “mutation’ ( an abnormality) it’s a recessive gene that occurs infrequently. Few animals have even one of the trait, so to have 2 parents both be able to pass it on is even more rare.
Please do a video on British big cat sightings. If lynxes, wolves still live in Britain
I saw an Easter Cougar once north Of Chibougamau 20 years ago... Supposed to be extinct, but definitely NOT. (Quebec-Canada).
lol sounds like they locals were describing a Tasmania tiger with the white stripes, short tail and short ears plus they had big jaws and teeth i pretty sure
Er, no! Reports outside Tasmania, the Australian mainland and New Guinea lack credibility and they don't look in the least like a cat at all.
Love this! Wouldn't it be amazing if these cats still existed?
There are efforts to revive it, but sequencing DNA has not yet worked.
I have heard a ‘report’ of the North American lion still being in Alaska…but only one.
Super awesome video and greatly researched on possible surviving sabertoothed big cats or mutations and ecomorphologies. It’s fascinating how many accounts there are, even semi aquatic ones, very peculiar and very intriguing.
Amazing research an display 👏 thankyou!
Thank you for watching
Yup they do exist they’re called clouded leopard the closest thing we have as a modern sabertooth but much smaller
- 'closest to' doesn't mean 'are'. Clouded leopards are not sabretooth cats, so sabretooth cats do not exist today
- you are the second person I've read to state clouded leopards are the closest. If you mean by relatedness; no, ALL extant cats are equally related
- if you mean in regard to relative canine size, that's fair enough, but that's a single trait comparison
Hey i just wanted to say thanks for this video. You did a great job with it.
Hey, thanks!
The saber-tooth gene is still around. I had a white-and-orange kitty, with unusually large canines. They extended about 1/16 inch below the bottom of his jaw---which technically made him a "saber-tooth".
It probably survived in modern day cat populations through a rare mutation yeah
who knows, maybe there are some domesticated cats out there that have abnormally large canines and are evolving seperately.
I would say they dont exist anymore but there's an authentic picture of some kind of animal that perfectly resembles a Thilacine that a woman took in her yard. Some people say its just a dog but if you look at the tail, its not a typical dogs tail. So, with such a discovery, i dont know. Theres also a video of a HUGE, HUGE wolf that a dog is barking at and the dog tries to attack the wold--bad idea. The wolf bit the dog but didn't kill it. The wolf in that video is HUGE
The biggest fear of the dark is not as a result of saber tooth tigers or other predatory animals out thede, it is the fear of another more cunning, more deadly adversary- human beings. Not even the champawat tiger comes close to predatory humans.
I had to look to see where the footage was from. Good vid. What was up with the two tigers on the rocks? Mange?
14:30 - I think it's obvious that the big cat seen by Senegal hunters was the Caspian tiger.
Caspian tigers were often traded in the North African regions, and many of them were reported to have escaped captivity into the wild.
Caspian tigers are obviously striped, as described.
In ancient times, the Romans often pitted the Caspian tigers in death matches against the lion (Barbary lions) and the tiger almost always won.
Decades ago when I was a child here in Central California, our little town was attacked every other day by a large female mountain lion, she killed around 16 chickens, a goat, at least 1 dog, and maybe a few cats. When she started coming out in the day to try and attack the chicken pen on our property my father dropped her with his pig gun, a rifle that fires 44 magnum. She's buried probably around 1500 feet from where I'm sitting now, down in the river area.
My grandma and great grandma both seen one while herding sheep and they described the tracks as near human this was when I was younger though I think 7 or 8
Near HUMAN??I've spoken with people who know facts about shape shifting humans...one I spoke with was "practicing"
Love your channel man
Several years ago I lived in Oklahoma and out of my back door I seen a black panther on the south edge of Town. It was about a 50 pound cat it walked towards me within 50yards stopped and looked at me for several seconds and then bolted off into the trees.
I don’t know if there are any saber tooth tigers left alive or not but it would not surprise me if they were alive
It was probably a rescue that escaped or released...and was interested in your help...50lbs...probably young
what's the title of the book at 7:18? title in both english AND french if possible!
As a Floridaman I fear no night. The night fears us. 😂
The skeleton at 1:05 is incorrect. Felines have digitigrade legs. Meaning they stand and walk on their digits (toes) That skeleton is standing on plantigrade legs, (meaning the feet are planted flat on the ground), like a bear, weasel, or primates etc. On the front legs, the feline joint, equivalent to the wrist, can't bend in that direction. I thought experts reconstruct these things 🤔. There is no partial plantigrade, as far as I know.
Excellent video! I have been fascinated with potential of the Ennedi Tiger, of the Ennedi Mountains, for a long time! I want to go there, on an expedition. There is another mystery feline in Africa too! It is apparently dark, like a grey, with spots. Ugh I forget where that is sighted.
I loved your realistic, scientific take on this! Having an advanced degree, I get frustrated seeing "cryptid" channels discuss this, the day after their " Real Dogman Sightings" video lol
There are still many species of animal yet to be discovered in our jungles and deep forrest. I once saw a fanged frog in the swamps of south Georgia.
The difference between the sabre-tooth tiger and Tasmanian tiger is that the Tasmanian went extinct less than a hundred years ago and the sabre-tooth went extinct thousands.
And the Tasmanian Tiger is not a tiger at all!
@@keithprice475 Nor are 'sabretooth tigers'!
@@Dr.Ian-Plect True, but much more closely related.
@@keithprice475 yep
Also the fact sabre-tooth cats are huge apex predators while Tasmanian tiger is tiny and can be easily mistaken for a dog.
great video! such a cool topic!
Thank you 😊
I’m a 43yr old man. I’ve been shot multiple times, stabbed once, and spent the first half of my life in and out of prison. I’ve never admitted this to ANYONE, ever. I am afraid of the dark. Don’t know why. But I leave a light on at night when I go to bed. I can not handle being in the pitch black. Terrifies me.
You’re not alone in that
I think it does most people.
Good job. I like your channel
Thank you very much!
Interesting that you mentioned "water panther" as there have been claimed of such in Lake Michigan.
That's pretty interesting I'm guessing a lot of these accounts are probably true and what seems likely to me is that some cats have a recessive gene a throwback to different ancestors and sometimes it shows up in Modern Cats I could totally believe that a sabertooth could show up in maybe a lot of cat species like that cute little black cat.
I live in S TX where we are told by the wildlife experts that there are NO jaguarundis left. They did an in depth, two year study of the area and found not even a trace. Nope, none, nada, zero, zilch. Now my coworkers and I would laugh at this finding about once a month as we would watch one saunter across the road or follow one across a bridge. While they are not big animals, neither are they tiny, and they don't seem to be nearly as shy as one would be led to believe. If these kitties can hide in plain sight while being sought out, just imagine what other felines might manage when no one is even looking for them.
There’s trail cam footage of a few jaguars in New Mexico.
@@inflameswetrust2194yup, I saw the video of the one in the Gila forest in southern NM.
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It also seems that there is potential for a recessive saber-tooth trait for liger (lion-tiger) hybrids. Some examples of which are in captivity. But I'm not sure if those can viably reproduce, due to being a not-so-natural mix of two species that normally don't mate. If anyone wants to find at least one known current example, one can go through information and pictures of those.
Since it's a known animal, I'm not sure it counts as a cryptid. It's just an unusual trait that can occur with that mix.
I was thinking the same thing I thought that we could be ligers or tigons and they have terrible genetic displacements which can make them move peculiarly or almost not at all.
If they were hybrids they could effectively look different from all directions.
I have friends in the sanctuaries around the world who have taken in some.
It's a heartbreaking prospect because they can't hardly stand up with the weight that they have and complications with balance but some of these descriptions are beginning to sound a bit like that.
It's a very interesting video and very appreciated.
The Smellodon was thought to be the gassiest of the big cats as it's prey ate nothing but beans and sprouts
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My mini lion has the same hanging canines hanging from her mouth, making her a small smilodon.
Sadly I don’t think the original smilodon are around today.
Most adults are scared of the dark also. That’s why we have street lights all over causing tremendous amounts of light pollution and denying us the ability to see the stars
Or you know, to be able to see?
And you know public safety
I don't know about Smilodon, but I am convinced from an encounter that I, my brother, my cousin and my best friend had in 1980 in southwestern Missouri. We were spelunkers and often had to hike to get to our caves. One time on a 120°F day, we were disoriented and each of us thought that we knew the way was different than the rest. We suddenly hear a loud angry growl. We were young, 3 of us from the Cherokee Nation and had no fear and the other one so religious that he had zero fear of anything.
My cousin calmly said, "That's a bobcat." To which my brother calmly responded, "Or a mountain lion."
Then an earthshaking RRRROOOOAAARRRR!!!
happened and all of our feet agreed that the way we needed to go was opposite that horrifying roar! No discussion was needed! I have been within 30 yards of lions and tigers fighting and/or mating. A tigress if interrupted or becomes aware of an intruder goes berserk and will kill whatever or whoever intrudes. This roar was about 10 times louder than the lion and tiger roars!!! I researched this and am convinced it was a Panthera Atrox; the supposedly extinct American lion which was/is larger than the African lion. It couldn't be anything else other than a Smilodon. It was in the known range of Atrox. Plus, there were recent accounts of huge African lion or maneless African lion looking big cats in the area. The sheriff had a posse that hunted, killed and burned up the bodies of 4 such big cats. He didn't want hordes of crazies running around trespassing and causing trouble. He put out a heavy handed order to arrest anyone with a weapon not from the area or anyone armed and trespassing. That was the end of it. It was in the same part of the Ozarks we were in. I would love to have seen the one we encountered! It would have been a highlight of my life! It would probably have been the last thing I saw. No way to survive from an animal that could roar so loud!
Damn that's crazy, Describe how the area looked.
Press x to doubt
This was very interesting! Not sure if sabre toothed big cats are still out there... probably not... but who really knows! Thanks!
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I wouldn't be surprised if some did, outside of the Americas.
I doubt it
100% a no
When I was a kid scientists said certain turtles were extinct in New England but as a Grandpa I know of colonies of these turtles that are doing well in Massachusetts that were previously thought to be wiped out by humans eating them to extinction. Why couldn’t some of these smaller Sabertooth Cats not be hiding out in the wilderness where they might still have prey to survive on?
Are Sabertooth Cats Still Alive? Sure. I've got a Saber Tooth Skunk. Actually, it's a black & white cat that has a white stripe down the middle of her face, making her look a bit skunk like. And as far as the sabertooth part, she's the only domestic cat I've seen that has her fangs stick out about a 1/4" even when her mouth is closed. 🐈⬛
I have seen a black cat that had fangs like that. She was a regular black house cat. Very friendly.
Whatever you do, never, EVER, take that cat to France. With those markings, Pepe le Pew would be all over her in no time!!!😉
I thought this video was gonna be bullshit, but it's become one of the most interesting videos I've seen this year
Unlike something akin to the Mokele-mbembe, Sabertooth Cats did live recent enough that they did overlap with Modern Species including Homo Sapiens (Modern Humans), so it's possible that there are some populations are still around until more recent times
Nah, the Mokele Mbembe isn't real. Trey the Explainer made a great video about it. The saber toothed tiger is more likely to still exist, but I still doubt it.
@@weakest_serb that's kinda my point. Dinosaurs as what most people would normally define as a Dinosaur are very ancient and greatly predates man. So the likely hood of a population existing to more recently without anyone evidence found is at best very slim, especially if we are talking about Sauropod Sized Creature.
At the same time a population of Cenozoic Animals that are at most Lion or Tiger sized, and more importantly their known time being recent enough to overlap with Modern Humans. It more feasible for those types of creature to survive up to more modern times
@@ryanhau1073 I agree. I misread your original comment.
They might have reverted back to the size of Smilodon gracillis to hide from humans and the new environment.
I believe its more likely that an independent species now or in the future is gonna adopt the saberteeth.
Smilodon was highly specialized hunter and they always dissappear after the main prey dissappeared.
Eye witness testimony is one of the weakest form of evidence, if these cryptids existed, then how come we havent found groups of them or dna or anything at all.
As for the thylaccine people saw it as a pest and hunted them all the way from early 1800 hundreds to early 1900 hundreds, the closer to 1930 it becomes those same hunters goes and says "we cant find them anymore".
As fun as cryptids and extinct animals that are seen in modern times are to think about, they have barely any evidence to support them, which is a shame
They were in Dec. of 2005. I briefly saw two creatures that looked like Homotherium along a highway in the Ozarks
Poaching ought to be made punishable BY DEATH ON SIGHT
Sometimes it is
big fan of the channel
In South Georgia. USA we have a cryptid called the Wampus Cat. I got to see it on a trip with our church youth. Bright red. With a mane, panther sized, very bright green eyes. And very intimidating.
It have 4 legs?
@@wirelessone2986 Yes not six or a retractable claw. It was very similar to a lion, but incredibly bulked up and bright red. It was as red as the Georgia clay. It's eyes were a beautiful sparkly green. Mesmerizing but not transfixing.
Would be interesting to see dna extracted from smilodon crispered with a modern large cat. Would not be surprised if it would work.
I am a passionate lover of all cats and I would like to think that Saber tooth cats were still out there. But the planet has changed so much that I just don't know if they could adapt well enough.
Plus given human nature... what would we do to them if we found out they were alive I am afraid we would just destroy them.
You should have used a trail camera to find that cat.
The Saber tooth cat is kind of like Sasquatch. 2023 was a banner year for sightings, so much so that I am now starting to wonder why and of course the answer is their habitats are being squeezed, specially in California with all the big fires. There is a building body of evidence that they exist and yet they are so elusive. In this modern world of technology you would think there would be more.
Some mutations can come from inbreeding and if they are an effective change for the better, I could see other cats developing larger teeth.
As the description, maybe they saw a Thylacosmilus, an extinct sabertooth like marsupial with stripes on back..
I'm a bit too long in the tooth to believe this.
Great joke. 👍😆 Much bettere than the repetitive one about bigfoot’s pet. 🥱
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What's the one about bigfoot's pet?
Well done and very interesting, thank you❣️
Thank you for watching!
Cats are very stealthy animals. You could be a few feet from one an if it did not move you want see it.I know this very well because I own a few cats.
I swear you look at a spot right next to you then turn to TH-cam & ten seconds later you look back & the dang cat is laying there sound asleep like they'd always been there.
Same thing in that you look away & they completely shift the direction they're laying without you noticing.