Episode 61: Sabretooth (2002)

It’s October, which means it’s time for scary movies! We’re starting with one that is not scary: Sabretooth (2002) is a made-for-TV Sci-Fi channel movie about an evil geneticist and a greedy capitalist who resurrect a Smilodon, which escapes and starts eating teenagers in the woods. This movie has bad CGI, a C- genetics lab, and John Rhys-Davies, who must have taken time off from Lord of the Rings to be in it.

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Watch Sabretooth on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxVEANFmfxs

Bear Safety: https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/mtn/ours-bears/securite-safety/ours-humains-bears-people

How to identify cat tracks: https://www.bear-tracker.com/caninevsfeline.html

Josh concedes – there are puppets in the closeups: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284445/mediaviewer/rm4037833472/?ref_=tt_md_1

Ross’ first paper – Barnett et al. 2005. Evolution of the extinct Sabretooths and the American cheetah-like cat. Current Biology, 15(15), R589-R590: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(05)00836-5.pdf

American vs. British spelling: https://www.oxfordinternationalenglish.com/differences-in-british-and-american-spelling/

Bats – unfairly maligned? https://www.merlintuttle.org/ebola-bats-prematurely-blamed/