Why Did the Saber-Tooth Tiger (Smilodon) Go Extinct?

Why Did the Saber-Tooth Tiger (Smilodon) Go Extinct?

With their enormous, deadly-sharp canines, saber-toothed carnivores are well known to many people as frightening and ferocious predators of the Cenozoic.
First things first, although Smilodon is referred to as a saber-tooth tiger by most people, this prehistoric mammal wasn't a true tiger at all. Smilodon was a prehistoric cat, which grew to 3m long and 1.2 m tall. They weighed between 55-400kg. Powerfully built, it possessed large, deadly saber-teeth which is used to kill its prey by crushing its throat, and it was capable of running at immense speeds of approximately 30 kilometers per hour.
When hunting, Smilodon killed its prey by using its immense strength to pin its prey down before crushing its prey's throat with its saber-teeth. Like some modern-day species of big cats, Smilodons would gnaw on the bones of their prey. But when fighting against more capable and defensive prey or opponents, Smilodon would instead go into an extremely wild, uncontrolled, dangerous, and unpredictable battle frenzy; madly slashing at the opponent with its claws, and lashing out at anything else in its way that got too close.
Though they typically hunted in packs, alone Smilodon was just as dangerous. Like many predators, they would typically go for easy prey and would pick off any who strayed from the group.
Given the impressive characteristics of these cats, you're probably wondering why they went extinct.

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[LAZgoo]

they should compare the bite force of a smilodon skull and a modern lion skull which both have the same length

[champagnecamping]

They hunted megafauna. Large forelimbs for grip and teeth for piercing fat, muscle, arteries. They were slow but a group could catch and ware down a sloth or mammoth. When the megafauna died out, smilodon was too large and slow to catch smaller prey. They’re evolutionary equipment became obsolete.

[xboy]

Im sad that saber-tooth tiger went extinct

[vladline]

Sabre tooth cat are built for fighting also not a chase like modern big cats today. Powerful big cat

[metalman]

I feel like I've seen a lot of these illustrations before. Nice nostalgia!

[RANbit]

So we know why Smilodon became extinct. The question that remains open is: how did it evolve? There seems to be no footage about that as far as I know. Are saber toothed cats real felines? Or were they of deviating ancestry? Is there any material about it came to be, or are we just groping in the dark to try to answer that question?

[bompykaushal]

Ciao, buddy! Thanks for uploading this video! I really like Saber-Tooth Tiger, it's a pity that they went extinct!

[mysryuza]

Part of me wishes I could meet one. This is just wishful thinking but if I met one, I would have call them "Smile, " to reference the hope that this particular Smilodon would have a happier and brighter future compared to what happened to the rest of its kind.

[zadas]

Smilodon could have been killed my humans, or there wasn't enough food sources

[hydanbloomfield]

Actually the smilodon populator weighd 500kgs not 400kgs but anyways it was an amazing video but please get the weight correct.

[taniaguzman]

What is the relevance of the Smilodon to vertebrate evolution?

[aredits]

smilodon is the state fossil of California

[Kripalkathi]

Please make full video on GIR Wildlife sanctuary 🙏🏽

[LAZgoo]

because of all the meteors which hit every continent on earth except for australia
because when all the big megafauna died out at the same time, the human population took a devastating hit as well at the same time

[bluenotez]

Every fossil ive seen is much smaller no way near 400 pounds

[AnimalsSimplified]

Because of humans and climate change, like most other animals. Climate change leading to less prey and humans posing an increasing threat due to hunting etc.

[addmoregek]

Because humans didnt like to be their favourite pray anymore

[MizzouRah]

This video is trash.

"Immense speeds of approximately 30 km per hour". Uhhhh...that's only 18 mph. That's obviously false.

Almost everything in the video is pure speculation. Gnawing on bones, the "battle frenzy" comment was just dumb, hunting in packs, claiming that early humans wouldn't have killed them for food, but may have for protection or sport. There's no evidence to support any of that. This video needs to be scrapped.

[LeviAckerman-xtdx]

smilodon looks scary but only on looks cause the canine is pretty useless since it limits the size of its bite capability only small think can enter its mouth . its just for looks but pretty useless if you think about it it only finction like warlus a large long canines but useless sincr they cant use it to bite cause its too long for their mouth

[trevordutch]

RUBBISH...Was this creature able to disjoint it's bottom jaw...like a snake? It seems to me it was a "leap on...sink the huge teeth into it's prey's hind quaters for instance (mouth closed) and fall off" so ripping an enourmous wound causing the prey animal to bleed out and be followed up and overcome. I don't know...so you tell me. Was this creature able to open it's mouth wide enough to inflict a serious penitration to a large prey and if so rember that in order to free itself from a thrashing beast it needed to uncouple it's masive canines in order to avoid damage to itself. Once stuck into it's prey it was then along for the ride. It had no reason to bite. It had to uncouple or the concequences could be life threatening. No...nothing else terestial has teeth like this today. Maybe this is why they died out. Too specialised...If it was a great design option then ...something changed or we would see lions with such teeth. It worked then because of it's specific prey or the prey techniques changed. I dunno...let's know. Just doesn't add up to me.