If this interests you, then I highly recommend The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives by Turner and Anton [1]. The illustrations of ancient cat species are almost forensic in style and realism, showing details of muscle and tissue placement, and the text relates a number of fascinating fossil stories, for example a sinkhole into which a sabertooth cat and its prey tumbled, presumably while wrestling to the death, to be entombed together for megayears.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Big-Cats-Their-Fossil-Relatives/dp/02...