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Saber toothed cats used their jaws for the same things most carnivores do. They used them to kill prey, and also to bite off food so that they could swallow it.
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What eats lettuce coral?
sabertoothed tigers.
What is an adult saber-toothed tiger called?
The real scientific name for sabertoothed tigers of all ages was smilodon.
How far back do saber-toothed tigers go?
They existed during the pleistocene (tertiary) era about 10,000 B.C. they coexisted with early humans, and also the famous wooly mammoth and the terror bird (phorusrhacos). they had strong jaws to latch onto their victims body and impale them with its large fangs and stay on their victims until they bled to death.
What is a woolly mammoths predator?
Sabertoothed tiger
What are tiger defensive?
Tigers can use their patterned hides to hide in the shadows or darkness. They also use their sharp claws, powerful jaws, and sharp teeth to defend themselves in fights as needed.
Why does a python use its jaws?
they use their jaws to munch or grind their food up
What prehistorical creature did apes evolve from as cats of today large and small evolved from the Sabre toothed tiger?
Cats did not evolve from sabertoothed tigers. Rather, sabertoothed cats evolved from other cats. Modern apes evolved from miocene apes, which were somewhat similar. Miocene apes evolved from some lemur-like primate, or perhaps something like a lorise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loris
Do curassows have jaws?
Yes, curassows have jaws; it is how they are able to use their beaks.
What do turtles use to eat?
Their jaws
Are tigers hunted for their jaws?
Yes. Pretty much every body part of a Tiger is valuable in illegal Chinese markets.
What is the features of a Bengal tigers?
im guessing...their orange and black stripestheir good hearingtheir strong backbone, jaws and claws
How did sabertoothed tigers go eigstink?
because as it lived in the ice age it must have been adapted to the environment but as the ice age ended the tigers would have drowned into the melted ice or they were probably killed due to the heat and changes in the environment. It could have also had happened because most of their pray ( e.g mammoths) would have died so they could have had starved to death.
