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At best, saber-tooth cats live on only in the imaginations of those who find them fascinating. You might have expected them to fill much the same ecological niche as present day cougar(Puma concolor) of North and South America and live in the same broad range of habitats: forests, savannas, lowland and mountainous deserts.. Keep in mind that this is only a comparison; although cougars and saber-toothed cats both belong to the family Felidae, modern cats are from the sub-family Felinaewhile the saber toothed cats were from the extinct sub-family Machairodontinae. Saber toothed cats have no modern descendants.

The saber toothed cats were a subfamily of cats that scientists refer to as the Machairodontinae. The Machairodontinae flourished for nearly 30 million years on all continents except Australia and Antarctica. The last saber toothed cats were Smilodon, a genus from North and South America that died out about 10,000 years ago.

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Saber toothed cats were a subfamily of cats. Their fossils have been found on all continents but Australia and Antarctica. They were primarily adapted for grassland ecosystems where their primary prey lived, which were megafaunal mammals such as mammoths and bison.

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There were many different species of saber toothed cats. Each species lived in a specific time and place. Remains of different types of saber toothed cats have been found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica, dating between 23 million and 10,000 years ago.

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in most parts of it probably mostly in the north

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Do saber-toothed tigers live in a desert?

No.


Did mammoths and saber toothed tigers live with dinosaurs?

No. The saber-toothed cats evolved 22 million years ago.


What time period did the saber-toothed tigers live?

I belive iceage?


Where saber-toothed tigers live?

Nowhere - they've been extinct for thousands of years.


Do saber-toothed tigers live in grass?

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Did saber-toothed tigers live in North America?

in most parts of it probably mostly in the north


Did saber-toothed tigers ever live in US?

Yes, they were all across North America.


How are white tigers and saber-toothed cats the same?

They are both big cats. But saber tooth tigers are known to live in the ice age, if you know from the film The Ice Age.


Did the saber-toothed tiger live alone or with others like it?

Saber tooth tigers lived in and hunted in packs, like lions of today.


Where did the Saber-Toothed Tiger Live?

Fossils from the subfamily that included all saber toothed cats have been found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. The most famous genus of saber toothed cats, Smilodon, lived in North and South America.


How long did saber toothed tigers live for?

There were many types of saber toothed cats. If you are referring to the most famous genus, Smilodon, they existed on Earth for nearly 1.8 million years. The whole subfamily of saber-toothed cats existed for 22.989 million years. There were also a number of other unrelated animals referred to as saber toothed. As far as life span, I would guess that they lived less than 20 years, similar to wild lions.


Were did the saber toothed tiger live?

saber toothed tiger lived almost everywere.