Footage at 1:30 from the film 'Quest for fire'

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.

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.

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.

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.

Catlike animals with very long incisors are in one of those niches that develop over and over again in evolution.

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.

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

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.

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!

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 KZfaq 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'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

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.

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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.

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

"Cats are sneaky as heck !" 🐅 (best quote)

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.

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?

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

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.

A tabby cat can virtually disappear almost anywhere, just by remaining still. Imagine a predator that was big as a horse with such stealth!

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 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! 😊

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.

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

Also, sometimes (rarely) different species of cat interbreed and this brings out covered-up traits as in the liger's size.

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.

The Smellodon was thought to be the gassiest of the big cats as it's prey ate nothing but beans and sprouts

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.

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!

I saw an Easter Cougar once north Of Chibougamau 20 years ago... Supposed to be extinct, but definitely NOT. (Quebec-Canada).

I have heard a ‘report’ of the North American lion still being in Alaska…but only one.

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.

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.

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!' 😂👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Please look into the "Australian big cats", yearly there are many sightings but no one (to my knowledge) has caught one. However there is alot of video evidence of sightings. I even had an experience with one a few years ago, I had no idea what I was looking at until I googled panthers in Australia. I would love someone to find proof of what I saw with my own two eyes! BTW, fantastic videos! Keep up the good work.😊

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.

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.

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.

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

A very well done video on a very intriguing subject, you obviously did your research. 👍😎

That was cool, thank you was a long day and this lil piece helped me unwind and unplug 😊

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.

There's been jaguars photographed as far north as fort washita near lake texoma

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".

Great video, love that you go in to sutch detail on eatch sighting

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.

With the finds of soft tissue in Dinosaur bones i have to question the validity of dating methods and tge dates they give. There is no way soft tissue can be around for 65 milion olus years. With well over 100 different soft tissue finds supposedly dating from 65 to 500 million years and no mechanism to keep soft tissue that long i have to really cast doubt on modern dating methods. Thabks for the video

Yup they do exist they’re called clouded leopard the closest thing we have as a modern sabertooth but much smaller

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!

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.

As a Floridaman I fear no night. The night fears us. 😂

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 🙏

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.

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

Amazing research an display 👏 thankyou!

Please do a video on British big cat sightings. If lynxes, wolves still live in Britain

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.

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"

Love this! Wouldn't it be amazing if these cats still existed?

I really enjoyed your video on the possible existence of Smiladon. It would be nice to think a smaller Subspecies still exists. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

Can scientists genetically engineer a sabertooth cat back from extinction? From living big cats.

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.

Love your vids, really good content 😺

I wouldn't be surprised if some did, outside of the Americas.

I'm a bit long in the tooth to believe that Sabretooth's are still alive and kicking.

Well I don't see why there couldn't be some sub species of big cats that have developed longer K9s and are just very rarely seen due to small population and remote habitat. I mean hell I've seen 2 mountain lions in my lifetime in my home state 20 odd years apart and they supposedly don't exsist here.

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

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

The giant cgi tiger superimposed over drone footage is so funny to me

Hey i just wanted to say thanks for this video. You did a great job with it.

Always love your cryptozoology videos, keep up the great work!

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!

Clouded leopards have the largest canines relative to body size of existing cat species. They almost look like a mini saber tooth

I'm a bit too long in the tooth to believe this.

Good job. I like your channel

It’s hard for a very urban world to conceive how vast, remote and free of humans some areas are. In addition, not all environments are conducive to preserving dead specimens. The older I get, the less apt I am to write people off on this stuff.

Smiladon could have survived but they are different to there ancestors having to adapt and survive to the changing conditions.

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.

great video! such a cool topic!

My Grandfather, Eugene Edwards of Edmonton, Kentucky, once told me of a sighting in the late 1960s. He told me that a large cat-like animal with long fangs was seen in Kentucky. It was reported that the animal moved in leaps much like a rabbit.

There's a healthy market for large cats, especially in Dubai. Kentucky used to breed them, but it was banned fairly recently. But when people get used to making a living a certain way, they would just let them go in the wild, before police show up, which is a terrible idea, but they don't care. And with the advent of genetic manipulation, it's very possible these breeders mixed saber tooth genetics into an existing breed.

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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.

Love your channel man

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.

Poaching ought to be made punishable BY DEATH ON SIGHT

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.

Saber teeth are probably just recessive in any subsequent species and will periodically reemerge like body hair or tails in humans.

Monster quest.. They was looking into all sorts of sightings with different creatures including bigfoot.. Perhaps disabled tooth the cat may have started breeding with other types of cat, creating a new species.. Somewhere's an africa a few years ago.. They found a pride of lions with the unusual large saber teeth in the front of their mouth.. Perhaps the genes did not die out but are making a comeback..

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

Cryptids are just a term to discredit actually being largely unacknowledged or thought to be extinct animals, quick examples are giant squid and celacamp. Most would call me crazy saying that I witnessed a large cat bigger than a belgian mastiff with a bobbed tail in the Southern Cook County forest preserves. I know what large animals are, I worked at the two nearest animal hospitals, fostered a great dane and lived with a mastiff for years after, and went to both Chicago zoos on field trips growing up. It's only not real until it becomes near common knowledge, people spend their lives saying one thing of course they'll fight against changing their literal career.

Would be interesting to see dna extracted from smilodon crispered with a modern large cat. Would not be surprised if it would work.

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.

This was very interesting! Not sure if sabre toothed big cats are still out there... probably not... but who really knows! Thanks!

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. 🐈‍⬛

It should be fairly easy to find out if the animals described are indeed saber tooth tigers. These days we have drones with HD cameras, night vision and a lot of stuff. Automatic cameras can be set near the locations of the sightings. If they are real they must leave some sort of trace like hair, urine or feces or anything that can be analyzed to determine if it's a new species, one we thought was extinct, one we already know of or some sort of hybrid. We don't have to rely exclusively on what anyone says, there has to be a way to obtain physical evidence.

In a weird way, tigers almost have sabre teeth normally