the skeleton of a real sabre tooth tiger!!!

Coming upon you unawares, courtesy of the absolutely brilliant Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming. I quote from a commentary posted on ultimatewyoming.com:

"One of the best-kept secrets in the West is the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a complex of five internationally acclaimed museums and a research library.

The late author James Michener once called the Buffalo Bill Historical Center ?The Smithsonian of the West,? and with good reason.

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center stands as the largest history and art museum between Minneapolis and the West Coast, encompassing over 300,000 square feet of space on three levels. Because it is located in Cody, Wyoming, a town with a population of just 9,000, 52 miles from the east entrance of Yellowstone National Park, many visitors are stunned when they venture inside its doors. Nowhere else in the United States is such an important museum located in such a remote location.

The Buffalo Bill Historical Center has positioned itself as the single most important cultural attraction in the region surrounding Yellowstone National Park. Its collections include thousands upon thousands of priceless treasures related to the art, cultural and natural history, ethnology, and technology of the American West."

The Center is open from 8 am to 6 pm. The admission ticket is good for two consecutive days, which is good, because that still might not be enough to fully appreciate the Center's treasures....