Cats Parentage

With the help of minerals it is possible to restore a family tree of modern cats and other overland animals. Concerning to Miaciden family .This animals lived in woods and were size from mink up to the wolf. Blossoming has dropped out for an quarternary period epoch - about 60-35 million years ago. From Northern America on then land (now there there is Bering strait) they were distributed across all Eurasia. During the period, continued millions years, the modern family of predators has gradually developed.Miaciden have died out. The first animals resembling cats, have appeared in eocene 40 million years ago. In comparison with other groups of animals they developed faster. Already during an oligocene epoch they had similarity on a structure of a body to modern cats. The characteristic group in a family tree of cats which needs to be noted, is, so-called, saber-toothed cats. Angular teeth of the top jaw of these animals lived in a plenty, independently from each other, in various parts of the world, were extended in saber-like canines, and an angular teeth of the bottom jaw remained tiny or they at all were not. The most known were saber-toothed tigers, size from a lion. Concerning to kind Smilodon which lived during an early congelation in America. They very widely opened a mouth and during hunting have fatally wounded extraction by the powerful canines. They hunted on mammal. Which were much larger than them. During the pleystocene time for not clear reasons all saber-toothed cats have died out - is remarkable, that in America and Eurasia almost simultaneously. Remains of these animals concerning by later period, find very seldom. For example, in California saber-toothed cats, probably, lived 13000 years ago. Saber-toothed cats during millions years have arisen and have died out, "normal" cats continued to develop. In struggle for a survival they appeared winners: not only have lived up to now, but also have mastered all variety of vital space. Cats never lived on two continents: Australia and Antarctica. They have occupied South America recently - 2 million years ago. It is connected with drift of continents of the Earth. Up to middle-aged our planet weight dry the Southern hemisphere merged in one huge continent. Hundred eighty millions years ago, how the cat's family has appeared, the Southern hemisphere, owing to movements of an earth's crust, was divided into set of parts as Africa, Forward India, Northern America, Australia and Antarctic Region. Africa and Forward India have once joined the Euroasian part of a land and have been there and then populated with all kinds of cats. Two million years ago there was a connection Southern and Northern America in double continent, cats have gone to master and these parts of the world. Only Australia and Antarctic Region have remained till now isolated continents. The cat's sort had no there access while the modern domestic cat has not landed there together with the person.