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To call it a Saber-tooth Tiger isn't very accurate, because they're actually not a species of tiger. The Saber-Tooth Cat (Smilodon) didn't evolve into a tiger, they went extinct thousands of years ago.

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Fossils of these prehistoric creatures have shown that they had long, dagger-like teeth, giving them the name "saber-toothed tiger".

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It was named after the saber teeth it had although iut want fully related to tigers though.

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they got their name by ......

. having long teeth

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Because they had long canine teeth like sabers (a curved sword). They were properly "cats", not tigers, and the precise name is Smilodon.

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Saber toothed cats did not evolve into anything else. They became extinct, and have no living descendants.

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tigers are dangerous

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Were there saber tooth tigers?

Yes but they were called Smileodon


What is a saber tooth tigers habitat?

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Is it called saber tooth or saber tooth tiger?

it's correct name is Smilodon, but saber-toothed cats have been called saber-toothed tigers despite the fact that they aren't closely related.


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What group is the saber tooth tiger in?

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What preyed on saber tooth tigers?

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Are saber tooth tigers vertebrates?

yes


Were saber-toothed tigers real?

yes saber tooth tigers are real why else would we laern about them