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Where did the saber-toothed tigercome from?

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Saber toothed cat fossils have been found on all continents but Australia and Antarctica.

The saber toothed cat subfamily is believed to have evolved from Pseudaelurus quadridentatus. P. quadridentatus was cat that lived around 20 million years ago in North America and Eurasia.

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