Feeling pretty good about picking JDM to be champion by beating Belal, let’s see if Islam messes up my prediction.

The Gorilla Lemur is an extinct 350-400 lb primate that was probably still alive on the Madagascar highlands when humans arrived in 350 BCE. It might or might not have been able to take 100 unarmed humans. Unfortunately, humans are never unarmed.

I’ve been researching times in the fossil record when sabertooths have punched through skulls, which happened a surprising amount. Mauricio Anton, the best sabertooth illustrator out there, drew this sketch of Megantereon biting through an archaic human skull, which is pretty terrifying.

Thinking back over this weekend in combat sports where two ATGs came out of retirement for one last big money fight and their legs and reflexes weren’t there. The Stipe one hurts because he’s my favorite heavyweight and that just wasn’t him out there. He became a full time firefighter 3 years ago.

They found a sabertooth cub mummy buried in Siberia for the past 30,000 years. For the first time ever, we get to see an extinct species that has no modern analogue. Its neck is twice as thick as lion cub, and its paw pads are square instead of oval. www.nature.com/articles/s41...