This is concept art for a creature known as a “blade-fang” that will appear in my upcoming novel Women of the Plains, a tale about life for prehistoric humans in Africa circa 100,000 years ago. The species is technically a fictional invention of mine, but it would be descended from some of the saber-toothed cats that prowled Africa earlier in the Pleistocene and Pliocene epochs. By the time the events of the novel takes place, the blade-fangs are diminishing in numbers, with most remaining individuals lurking in the mountains of the Great Rift Valley.