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Because the only kind of saber toothed cat there was, was the saber toothed tiger. They went extinct a long time ago like the dinosaurs.

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Q: Why are there lions and tigers and leopards and house cats but not saber tooth cats?
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Are saber-toothed tigers lions?

No, there tigers


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.


How large are the saber-toothed tigers?

Saber toothed cats were as large as modern tigers and lions, but were only distant relatives.


Who or what ate saber-toothed tigers?

well saber tooth tigers are similar to modern day lions. not many things ate them. but poachers kill lions for their fur, so back in prehistoric times caveman were the poachers and the saber tooth tigers were the lions. to sum it all up nothing ate saber tooth tigers except caveman, they also killed them for fur.


Do saber-toothed tigers eat lions?

Of course not, because sabertooth tigers are extinct.


How did saber tooth tigers care for their young?

Mating a similar way to how lions and tigers do.


Are leopards decended from saber-toothed tigers?

no Sabre tooth tigers lived in north and south America there relatives are jugars and pumas


What were the predators of the stone age homo habilis?

Homo habilis, being an early human ancestor, would have faced predators such as large carnivores like sabertooth cats, big cats like lions and leopards, and other large predators like hyenas. They would have had to rely on group living, tools, and possibly seeking refuge in trees to protect themselves from these predators.


When there were dinosaurs were they snakes the size of saber-toothed lions?

there haven't been any (so far) BTW its saber tooth tigers


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.


How do saber-toothed tigers raise its babies?

Saber-toothed cats most likely raised their young the same way that modern lions do.


What food do saber-toothed tigers eat?

mammoths, giant ground sloth, humans, buffalo,giant camels, elephants, and leopards