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How large are the saber-toothed tigers?
Saber toothed cats were as large as modern tigers and lions, but were only distant relatives.
Are sabertooh tigers and African lions realted?
The ancestors of saber toothed cats and lions diverged at least 23 million years ago. Although they both belong to the family Felidae, they are part of different subfamilies, lions belonging to the Pantherinae subfamily, but saber toothed cats belonged to the Maicharodontinae subfamily. Long and the short of it, saber toothed cats and lions belong to the same family, but tigers, leopards, and jaguars are far more closely related to lions than they were to saber toothed cats.
How do saber-toothed tigers raise its babies?
Saber-toothed cats most likely raised their young the same way that modern lions do.
Why are there lions and tigers and leopards and house cats but not saber tooth cats?
Because the only kind of saber toothed cat there was, was the saber toothed tiger. They went extinct a long time ago like the dinosaurs.
What is a baby saber-toothed tiger called?
Baby tigers, lions, jaguars, and other large cats are called cubs. Hence, baby saber-toothed cats are called cubs.
What are the descendents of a saber-toothed tiger?
Saber toothed cats have no modern descendants.Although modern cats and saber-toothed cats both belong to the family Felidae, modern cats are from the sub-families Pantherinae (like lions and tigers from the genus Panthera and clouded leopards from the genus Neofelis) and Felinae (like servals, lynxes, ocelots, cougars, cheetahs, and house cats) while all saber toothed cats were from the completely separate and now extinct sub-family Machairodontinae.
What relatives did the saber-toothed tigers have?
Saber-toothed tiger did not only have massive teeth, but they also had a mixture of spots AND stripes. It was common to have more stripes than spots. Spots usually appeared on the head of the saber-toothed tiger, and were mostly black and gray. :)
What is the color of a saber-toothed tiger?
Because saber toothed cats became extinct before there were written records or photographs, and we have no definite paintings of saber toothed cats, we do not know what color saber toothed cats were. Furthermore, there were many, many species of saber toothed cats, living in different places at different times, and each would have been a different color.
What is a saber-toothed linked to?
Saber toothed cats were the Machairodontinae subfamily of cats. There are no descendants of the saber toothed cat left. The closest living relatives are the rest of the cat family.
What are smilodons useful for?
Nothing, saber-toothed cats (or incorrectly a saber-toothed tigers) are extinct.
Where saber-toothed cats found world wide?
Saber toothed cats were a subfamily of cats called Machairodontinae. Machairodontinae fossls have been found on all continents except Antarctica and Australia. So the answer is yes, saber toothed cats did live worldwide.
What family did the saber-toothed cat come from?
Saber toothed cats belonged to the family Felidae. Felidae includes all modern cats. However, saber toothed cats made up their own subfamily in Felidae, called Machairodontinae.
