Today we're taking a look at the origins of one of the most successful and  charismatic carnivoran families, the cats.

今天，我们来看看最成功和最有魅力的食肉动物家族之一——猫的起源。

And its incisors were huge – more like those of a rodent than a lion – but they might've filled a similarly stabby role to the canines of carnivorans.

它的门牙很大——更像啮齿动物而不是狮子——但它们可能扮演了与食肉动物的犬齿类似的刺伤角色。

The rest of its dentition was made to shear through flesh, too, like specialized premolars that resembled bolt cutters – kinda like the extreme version of the scissor-like carnassial teeth of carnivorans.

它的其余齿列也被用来剪断肉，就像专门的前臼齿， 类似于断线钳——有点像食肉动物剪刀状的食肉牙齿的极端版本​​。