“First meat - the small ones"
The kittens of Nanosmilus kurteni Martin, 1990, Oligocene, Nebraska (top) and the cubs of Paramachairodus (Based on P. transasiaticus Li & Spassov 2017) , Late Miocene. Hadjidimovo, Bulgaria (bottom) are about to taste their first meat - a rabbit Megalagus for the Nanosmilus and a Mesopithecus for the Paramachairodus family .
Martin L.D. 1991. A new miniature saber toothed Nimravid from the Oligocene of Nebraska. . Annales Zoologici Fennici 28(3-4): 341-348
Li, Y.; Spassov, N. 2017. A new species of Paramachaerodus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) from the late Miocene of China and Bulgaria, and revision of Promegantereon Kretzoi, 1938 and Paramachaerodus Pilgrim, 1913. PalZ. 91(3): 409. doi:10.1007/s12542-017-0371-7