Facts and Features of American Sabre-Toothed Tiger

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genre: Smilodon
 Scientific Name: Smilodon settler
Type: Mammals
Diet: Carnivorous
Size (L): 2 m - 2.5 m (79in - 98in)
Weight: 300 kg (661 lbs)
Duration of the life: 20-40 years
Life Status: Pack
Preservation Status:Vanished
Vanished: 10,000 BC
Color: Tan, Brown,Yellow, Black,White
Skin Type:Skin
Favorite food: Deer
Habitat: Forests and grasslands
Average Litter Size: 3
Prey also: deer, bison,Woolly Mammoth
Attackers:Human Beings
Special features: Large muscular body and canines

The sabre- toothed tiger is one of the most famous prehistoric animals ,along with giants such as woolly mammoths .Sabre-toothed tigers roamed the Mid parts of U.S.A,North America and South America and were identified for dangerous canines showing skeletons,far out of his mouth .

Despite its name, the sabre- toothed tiger was not  related to modern tigers that are found in forests of Asia. It is believed that the sabre tooth tiger had wandered grassland plains and open woodlands throughout North America and South America, where individuals  varied slightly depending on the area they inhabited.

The sabre- toothed tiger is known as one of the best animals of the ice age but little is  known about them ,as it is believed to have become vanished around 10,000 BC , which is a quite a very  long decade. The sabre- toothed tiger was given name due to  the canines which can grow to more than 7 inches long and can cause serious injury to prey with a single bite .

Unfortunately , the color is not identified of  sabre-toothed tiger ,but is believed to have been of a similar color to the today's lion in Africa ( and is not closely related to ) .The sabre-tooth tiger also had a strong and muscular health which meant it could quickly grab on it's prey before using his teeth as knives to make injury to them.

In the same way as today's felines , the sabre- toothed tiger was a carnivorous animal and had been the dominant predator within its environment .Large herbivores such as deer and bison have been the most common prey of the saber- toothed tiger ,along with the occasional giant ,like a little woolly mammoth must cross their ranges ,although their approximate diet is still unknown.

The sabre-toothed cat had been the dangerous predator in their environment to have no natural predators on American areas .Humans are thought to be the most likely threats of this great cat and more than 2,000 saber-toothed tiger skeletons have been found emerged in soil near Los Angeles .

As with modern felines ,sabre- toothed tiger was breeding in warmer months of spring, when after a gestation period that can last up to 8 months, the female one gives birth to an average of 3 cubs per litter. Nothing is known about sabre tooth tiger cubs,but it was born blind  as cubs today.

It is believed that the sabre tooth tiger vanished over 12,000 years ago when human  first arrived in the Americas ,hunting this species till extinction. Although climate change could also be the cause of its extinction as very little known.