How Did The Saber-Toothed Tiger Go Extinct?

How Did The Saber-Toothed Tiger Go Extinct?

The Saber-Toothed Tiger was certainly a beast. With sharp canines believed to be between 7 to 8 inches long on average, and a muscular build, this thing is certainly what nightmares were made of. Now technically, the scientific name for the saber-toothed tiger is the Smilodon (smai luh don). And Smilodon can be broken into 3 species, gracilis, fatalis, and populator. To no surprise, these things were one of the most well known prehistoric animals. But today we will ask the question, How Did The Saber-Toothed Tiger Go Extinct?

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[LifesBiggestQuestions]

Would you want to bring the Saber-Toothed Tiger back to life?

[Greenpoloboy]

They were probably very fierce, so the other animals had a vote and decided enough was enough and united against them and went to war with them. Clearly we know who lost...

[mysryuza]

"Tiger"
Me: **Internally screams and judges in "they're not tigers"**

[Sfg.frostyLive]

It would be scarier if thier fangs had venom

[freddythegamer]

What if you had a saber toothed tiger tell me in the comments

[afunnymonkey]

What if parrots discovered agriculture?

[BringbetweenBern]

bruh, they aren’t all gone... they still live inside the tiger’s we have right now

[HaloisTight]

What if the Australian Megafauna of the Pliocene and the Pleistocene never went extinct?

[adamski]

No Such thing as a sabre tooth tiger, the correct term is sabre tooth cats! as there was many species, sabre tooth tiger is actually a nickname to the sabre tooth cat species Smilodon Fatalis it got its nickname from the movie Sinbad and the eye of the Tiger which was the first movie the prehistoric cat was ever used in! If you watch Walking With Beasts tv series which is a follow up to walking dinosaurs they actually say what I have just said! “there is Such thing as a sabre tooth tiger, the correct term is sabre tooth cats!” If you don’t believe me watch the episode!

[LAZgoo]

i think that meteor that hit greenland 12800 years ago is to blame, because at the time the earth was coming out of the ice age, and that meteor made us go back into those ice age temperatures in only a couple years, which i think caused the bigger herbivores to die as the sudden drop in temperatures destroyed the vegetation, and smilodon wasnt adapted to kill smaller, quicker animals

[JanneValkama]

Wasn't there a theory somewhere that humans and Sabertooth tigers were at an evolutionary arms race, where their jaws open up wide enough to fit a human head and their teeth are spaced at the same distance as a human's eyes? So they would hunt from above and behind at night, which is why humans developed spears and fire as well as an instinctual fear of the dark, and a fear of unnaturally wide agape mouths that have long teeth, both of which fears are still instinctual today? So they were hunted to extinction due to "war". Anyone have resources or a direction to look into that theory?

[brooklyntguy]

It would be cool if some modern day tigers have saber teeth.

[xenon]

Damn if these beasts were still alive all the animals today would fear it.

[AffectionateDirtBike-exwh]

The Sabre tooth tiger was my favorite ice age animal

[eaglesman]

What if the Revolutionary war was never fought?

[Jack-empf]

I think humans killed so many mammoth which were the Smilodons main food source and they weren't built to chase down things like deer, or rabbits they where an ambush predators so when the mammoths went extinct the Smilodons followed shortly after.

[oyemwenoviasuyi]

When were they born and were they like living in the ICE AGE

[peetee]

Survival of the fittest pretty much sums it all.

[davidhalford]

what was the year called when the saber tooth tiger lived

[justdynee]

Humans tracked Bison or Mammoths until they were attacked by a sabre toothed tiger, in the midst of the battle the Humans waited until the prey species was dead or close to it then attacked the spent Sabre tooth and killed it. Or, having perfected their weaponry the humans simply hunted down the sabre tooth for food and clothing and ornaments. Humans killed off the Tiger's prey species and the Sabre tooth itself simultaneously. As the Sabre tooth population dwindled, and their territories so expansive the Sabre tooth if they were loners had a hard time finding mate towards the end. They reached a point of no return. Humans separated potential mates and a sabre tooth will hunt before mating if it is hungry. The downward spiral is relentless and comes from all directions.