Saber Tooth Tiger Teeth Solved & What If Kittens Had Them?

The saber tooth tiger was an intimidating predator but the question remains: weren’t those teeth in the way? How did it open its mouth wide enough? Well, those questions might finally be answered with some fascinating new research.

We also take a look at what some modern predators (kittens) would look like if they had saber tooth tiger-style teeth.

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"The enormous canine teeth that make extinct saber-toothed animals so frightening weren’t very practical. Consider the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis. This animal was smaller than a lion but nearly twice as heavy. It probably couldn’t have chased down its prey, instead relying on ambush tactics. And to operate those big chompers, the cat’s head and jaw were shaped differently from modern cats.

“Huge teeth got in the way of more than just running; they made eating and other basic activities difficult,” biologist Douglas Emlen of the University of Montana in Missoula notes in his upcoming book Animal Weapons: The Evolution of Battle. “The simple act of ingesting food was awkward because the enormous canines got in the way.”

Smilodon first appeared 1.6 million years ago and lived in North America and western South America, but the cats went extinct some 10,000 years ago. With no modern comparable animals, scientists have had to theorize how saber-toothed animals managed to employ those big canines. At first, researchers thought that Smilodon used its teeth like knives — or sabers — to slash and stab its prey, causing enough damage or blood loss to ensure death. But scientists argued that such a motion wouldn’t have had enough force to cut through the thick hide of a prey animal."