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No, they are of a different type of group of big cats and they were the last in their line of that cat group.
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Why did sabor toothed tigers have black teeth?
Saber toothed cats did not have black teeth. Many saber toothed cat fossils come from the La Brea Tar Pits, where the teeth and bones were preserved. The asphalt that preserved the bones, though, also stained them.
What are saber-toothed cats related to now?
saber tooth tigers is the only thing I know
What family do saber-toothed cats belong to?
Saber-toothed cats belong to the Felidae family, which includes all living and extinct cats. They are a subfamily within Felidae called Machairodontinae, known for their elongated canines and adaptations for hunting large prey.
Is a saber-toothed tiger in the same family as all of the other tigers?
Saber toothed cats belonged to the family Felidae, which is the same family as all other cats, including tigers. However, saber toothed 'tigers' were not actually a type of tiger. Instead, saber toothed cats belonged to a separate subfamily called Machairodontinae, and no surviving cats belong to that subfamily, including tigers.
How large are the saber-toothed tigers?
Saber toothed cats were as large as modern tigers and lions, but were only distant relatives.
What are smilodons useful for?
Nothing, saber-toothed cats (or incorrectly a saber-toothed tigers) are extinct.
Did saber-toothed tigers eat other dinosaurs?
First thing, saber toothed cats (there weren't really tigers), were mammals, not dinosaurs. Second, dinosaurs (apart from birds) went extinct long before saber toothed cats appeared.
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.
What are the structural differences between the saber-toothed and the present-day tiger?
First, saber toothed cats are not a type of prehistoric tiger. The name saber toothed tiger is a misnomer, and saber toothed cats are not ancestral to tigers. That said, saber toothed cats had very long canine teeth, which tigers do not have. Some saber toothed cats, such as Smilodon, had longer front legs than hind legs, which is different from tigers. They ran in a manner more similar to bears than to that of cats like tigers. They also had very strong upper bodies for tackling large prey, such as bison, which they then dispatched with their saber teeth.
Are saber-toothed tigers extinst?
Yes. The last saber toothed cats died out about 10,000 years ago.
How big can saber-toothed tigers get?
There were many species of sabre toothed cats (they were not tigers at all), the largest was Smilodon Populator, at nearly 800 pounds or more.
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.
