Smilodon populator

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While Smilodon is by far more robust than any tiger, the Ngandong femur has been tampered with to decrease its width. Here's a comparison with an S. populator from Castro and Langer (2008) with an old photo of the Ngandong femur I had lying around that was scaled with a ruler:

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Here we can see that the thickness of the diaphysis and proximal epiphysis are just shy of the Ngandong femur despite the S. populator femur being 98 mm shorter. 

For future reference (and to prevent tampered photos from being passed off as the original) I have attached the page from von Koenigswald. Reply