Smilodon - Wikipedia
The term "saber-tooth" itself refers to an ecomorph consisting of various groups of extinct predatory synapsids (mammals and close relatives), which convergently evolved extremely long maxillary canines, as well as adaptations to the skull and skeleton related to their use.
Saber-toothed cats were fierce and family-oriented - Science News
2019年3月24日 · A saber-toothed Smilodon fatalis skeleton reveals the robust forelimbs the cat used to pin down prey and the long canines that delivered a fatal bite. The Natural History Museum/Alamy Stock...
Smilodon Facts, Habitat, Diet, Fossils, Pictures - Extinct Animals
2022年3月28日 · The size of all the teeth of the smilodon and the robustness of the skeleton suggest that their prey included large mammals like bison, horses, camels, giant ground sloths, and probably young mammoths and mastodonts.
They Knew Saber-Toothed Tigers Were Big. Then They Found This Skull ...
2020年3月14日 · The skull of a particularly large Pleistocene-era Smilodon populator, or saber-toothed cat, which was found in Uruguay. This individual probably weighed close to 1,000 pounds. Aldo Manzuetti....
Smilodon: Ancient Saber Tooth Tiger - American Museum of Natural History
Smilodon had enormous canines, or "sabers," which protruded inches below its chin line when its jaws were closed. In order to stab its prey, the saber-toothed cat had to open its lower jaw to a 95-degree gape so as to clear the points of the sabers.
Sabre-toothed cat | Size, Extinction, & Facts | Britannica
2024年10月4日 · The most widely known genus of sabre-toothed cats is Smilodon, the “sabre-toothed tiger.” A large, short-limbed cat that lived in North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch, it was about the size of the modern African lion (Panthera leo) and represents the peak of sabre-tooth evolution.
Smilodon fatalis – Florida Vertebrate Fossils - Florida Museum
Most records are isolated teeth or bones, typically less than five specimens per locality, and most often just one. A partial skeleton of a subadult individual was found at Arredondo 1 in a limestone quarry southwest of Gainesville in the early 1950s (Fig. 2; Kurten, 1965).
Sabertooth cat skull newly discovered in Iowa reveals details …
2023年4月3日 · Researchers are analyzing the fossil cranium of a Smilodon fatalis that lived more than 13,000 years ago to learn more about the lifestyle of this iconic big cat.
The Many Lives of Smilodon - National Geographic
2010年11月23日 · The function of Smilodon teeth and the mechanics of its bite have long been debated by paleontologists, but ideas about its habits have never been as varied as they were around the turn of the ...
Smilodon: the iconic sabertooth | Journal of Mammalogy - Oxford …
2019年10月21日 · In Smilodon: The Iconic Sabertooth, Werdelin, McDonald, Shaw, and colleagues provide a comprehensive volume that thoroughly documents both the science of Smilodon as well as the extraordinary details behind its story, successfully tracking down obscure historic collectors and specimens.