Looking at the skull of the sabre toothed tiger, I would say around 20 teeth. Only two long ones.
They had two huge canine teeth that could get up to 7 inches long. Between these they had about half a dozen small, sharp teeth. In the back they did not have an alarming amount, just a normal amount of teeth.
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First of all you should know that the correct name for these beasts is Sabre-toothed Cats. There is no such thing as a saber-toothed tiger. There were many species of sabre-toothed cats, and no they were not the first cats of all time.
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.
The line of sabre toothed cats has been extinct for 10,000 years.
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.
The line of saber tooth cats went extinct over 10,000 years ago. There were many species, of which smilodon was the best known. It is often referred to as the saber toothed tiger, but in fact was not a close relative of modern tigers.
The common name is saber toothed cats. There were many species of saber toothed cat, but they all belonged to the subfamily Machairodontinae. The scientific name of one of the most well known saber toothed cat species is Smilodon fatalis.
There were many kinds of sabertoothed cats, and they varied in size from that of a large house cat to that of a tiger or lion, and some were even bigger. The classic saber toothed "tiger" is called Smilodon and the South American species could weigh up to 500 kgs!
There were many species of saber toothed cat, and fossils of them have been found in the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa. One of the most famous genera of saber toothed cat was Smilodon. They were primarily adapted for life in the grasslands, because that is where their large prey, such as mammoths and bison lived.
The primary prey of saber toothed tigers were big game animals. They would have hunted deer, bison, camelops (an extinct species of North American camel), and even mammoths and giant ground sloths. At the end of the ice age, many of these large prey animals that the saber toothed cat depended on died out, and the saber toothed cat became extinct.
The "saber-toothed tiger," Smilodon, is the CaliforniaState Fossil and the second most common fossil mammal found in the La Brea tar pits. The name "saber-toothed tiger" is misleading as these animals are not closely related to tigers
I believe you misspelled bites. And it can take anywhere from 1 to 15, just depends on where the tiger bites. It the teeth puncture an artery, death will occur with minutes. But if the tiger bites in an area with minimal organs, death will not be so immediate.