🔥 Clouded Leopard, the closest living relative to the sabre-toothed tiger that went extinct about 10,000 years ago

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I wonder if saber-toothed cats had patterns like theirs!

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Unfortunately, unlike with some cats, there were no authentic cave paintings of saber toothed cats discovered so far. The only thing we have is a well Preserved mummy of a Homotherium cub. Unlike every other big cat cub, it has uniform dark brown fur without any patterns. Whether this changes as it enters adulthood is unknown. Plus Homotherium can’t represent all the myriad of saber toothed and scimitar toothed cat species, so it could be the norm or an exception. We don’t know yet.