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Description
Species: Smilodon fatalis
Etymology: chisel/knife tooth (referring to the gigantic knife like canines)
Classification: Carnivora, feliformIa, felidae, machairodontinae
Diet: Carnivorous
Range: North America
Environment: semi-wooded grassland
Era: Cenozoic
Time period: Quaternary
Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: -
Appearance: unknown, but it had a longer nose compared to extant cats
Description: The saber-toothed cat, or Smilodon is a genus of machairodontine cats from the Pleistocene epoch. Compared to pantherines, the saber-toothed cat just like other machairodonts had longer noses and slimmer faces with large fangs. Their heads were small in proportion to their body, with a longer neck and bigger muscular arms. Their tails were also fairly short as they did not require them in counter-balancing while running unlike the pantherines which did. the Saber-toothed cats hunted differently from extant cats such as Lions (Panthera leo). They ambushed their predators and used their muscular arms to land them down, and finally using their saber-teeth to puncture the windpipe and arteries in the neck of their prey. They used a combination of blood loss and suffocation to kill their prey.
Their saberteeth were fragile and could break if subjected to extreme lateral force.

In the Picture: the Saber-toothed cats hunted differently from extant cats such as Lions (Panthera leo). They ambushed their predators and used their muscular arms to land them down, and finally using their saber-teeth to puncture the windpipe and arteries in the neck of their prey. They used a combination of blood loss and suffocation to kill their prey. However this one individual decided to try a different method and suffered the consequences as its thin knife-like teeth ended up broken from the strong lateral force.

Pop-culture depictions

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Description
Species: Smilodon fatalis
Etymology: chisel/knife tooth (referring to the gigantic knife like canines)
Classification: Carnivora, feliformIa, felidae, machairodontinae
Diet: Carnivorous
Range: North America
Environment: semi-wooded grassland
Era: Cenozoic
Time period: Quaternary
Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: -
Appearance: unknown, but it had a longer nose compared to extant cats
Description: The saber-toothed cat, or Smilodon is a genus of machairodontine cats from the Pleistocene epoch. Compared to pantherines, the saber-toothed cat just like other machairodonts had longer noses and slimmer faces with large fangs. Their heads were small in proportion to their body, with a longer neck and bigger muscular arms. Their tails were also fairly short as they did not require them in counter-balancing while running unlike the pantherines which did. the Saber-toothed cats hunted differently from extant cats such as Lions (Panthera leo). They ambushed their predators and used their muscular arms to land them down, and finally using their saber-teeth to puncture the windpipe and arteries in the neck of their prey. They used a combination of blood loss and suffocation to kill their prey.
Their saberteeth were fragile and could break if subjected to extreme lateral force.

In the Picture: the Saber-toothed cats hunted differently from extant cats such as Lions (Panthera leo). They ambushed their predators and used their muscular arms to land them down, and finally using their saber-teeth to puncture the windpipe and arteries in the neck of their prey. They used a combination of blood loss and suffocation to kill their prey. However this one individual decided to try a different method and suffered the consequences as its thin knife-like teeth ended up broken from the strong lateral force.

Pop-culture depictions

Suggested by , thanks to for the supervision.