Metailurus
Metailurus is a genus of false saber-toothed cat of the family Felidae, belonging to the tribe Metailurini, which occurred in Asia and Africa during the Miocene and Pliocene.
Metailurus was named by Zdansky (1924). It was assigned to Felidae by Carroll (1988).
Metailurus is known as a "false sabertooth" cat because, instead of true saberteeth, it has a cross between long, flat and blade-like saberteeth and the shorter cone-shaped teeth of modern-day felines. The canines are longer than even the clouded leopard but significantly shorter than true saber teeth and more conical than bladed. Due to the fragmentary nature of Metailurus fossils, the number of species is subject to debate.
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by AllRise
Maude...
by: AllRiseShe laughed like a car crash
In my ear
She sang me a secret
No one else could hear
She lived like a lifetime
Was just one day
If you could ask her
This is what she'd say
'I'm already outside me
Wish that you could let me be'
She came into see me
Through a dream
She made my finger
Turn off her machine
As I lean in to kiss her
There's no one there
Just a patch of laughter
Hanging on the air
'I'm already outside me
I love you and thank you
For loving me'
Maybe now she can smile down on me
Sitting in this cell
'cause I love her more