The Saber Tooth Tiger is one of the most well-known prehistoric animals. Saber tooth tigers were found world wide from the Eocene epoch to the end of the Pleistocene. The first saber cat appeared about 1.6 million years ago and they went extinct about 11,000 years ago. The saber tooth tiger is best known for it's long canines that could grow up to twelve inches in length. Armed with their saber-like canines they ruled the earth. Saber tooth tigers lived when the fight for survival was at its peak. The saber tooth tiger was the apex predator within its environment and although called a tiger, they were really more closely related to modern day lions. Fossil evidence suggests that they were social animals and excellent hunters. The saber tooth cat's food sources were large mammals such as deer, bison, giant sloths and mammoths. Paleontologists believe that the large canines were used to deliver a deep, fatal ripping wound to the belly or throat of a prey animal. The Saber tooth tiger survived right up until the last Ice Age. Some scientists believe that the arrival of the Ice Age, which changed the vegetation pattern, brought about the extinction of most of the larger game animals and led directly to the extinction of the saber tooth tiger. Other scientists argue that their extinction was brought about when humans, crossing the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the species into extinction. I am no scientist, however, I suspect that they were both contributing factors leading to the saber tooth tigers extinction. I have always held a fascination for prehistoric animals and this drawing of the Saber Cat in one of my favorites. Saber cats have found their way into many of my drawings as a Dark Design, Now, as the main topic, the Saber Cat contains the hidden Dark Designs.
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