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In ice-age there use to be a tiger whose canines were 7 inches long. They were the size of lions, though. They killed by stabbing the canines at several places rather than attacking like a modern tigers to the neck region. One such sabre-tooth tiger was named Smilodon fatalis. You may be knowing that modern tiger is called Felis tirgris.
Charles Darwin explained their extinction under the caption: '' Overspecialisation and extinction" According to Darwin Sabre-tooth tiger and Irish Elk became extinct because they had those advantageous characters developed too much and the boon became a bane.The sabre-tooth tigers became extinct because of too large canines that did not allow them to close the mouth and swallow the food.

2007-04-14 01:45:45 · answer #1 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 0 0

There was an animal called a Sabertooth (Knife-Toothed), the scientific name is Smilodon (which means Knife-tooth) in Greek.

While they are extinct, it is likely that since they were large predatory animals, early humans wiped them out for their own safety. This is the fate of most "mega" fauna.

They were - in life probably found in northern Eurasian near the Bering Straits but most all have been found on the American continents.

As many as six species of Smilodon are known to have existed and they were all cats or from Family "Felidae".

* Smilodon fatalis, 1.6 million-10,000 years ago
* Smilodon gracilis, 2.5 million-500,000 years ago
* Smilodon populator, 1 million-10,000 years ago
* Smilodon neogaeus, 3 million-500,000 years ago
* Smilodon floridus, may be a subspecies of Smilodon fatalis
* Smilodon californicus, may be a subspecies of Smilodon fatalis.

A fully-grown Smilodon weighed approximately 200 kilograms (450 pounds) and had a short tail, powerful legs and a large head. About the size of a lion, Smilodon was extremely powerful. Its jaws could open 120 degrees. Its fangs were about 17 cm (7 inches) long.

Many Smilodon fossils have been unearthed at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. The Smilodon is the prehistoric cat that researchers know the most about

2007-04-14 03:14:11 · answer #2 · answered by Mark T 7 · 0 0

Species is substantial. So is the state of the bone. Has it been chewed on? develop into it cooked? Context is likewise substantial. Are there different artifacts or evidence interior of reach to point a objective for the animal. some issues to seek for could be, for a draft species, something which has similarities to common tack of draft animals in comparable societies. indications of a barn or enclosure could additionally be a splash. truly in situations of mass destruction, ex: Pompeii, this could be less difficult than in places the place a draft animal could have died and been disposed of. nonetheless, there may well be a straightforward burial internet site for domesticated animals in sedentary settlements and in case you already comprehend that the society had puppy dogs and cats and you hit upon a burial spot with those and birds buried with comparable strategies you're able to be able to suspect that the society additionally had birds as pets. Achievements of the subculture is additionally seen. as an occasion, ought to the farming strategies used have been executed by hand or is it probable that draft animals have been required. yet another hint may well be in case you hit upon a skeleton of a dogs close to a settlement internet site and it shows indications of dealt with injuries. For a draft species, there may well be indications of placed on and tear on the joints or per risk iron footwear. i'm determining of suggestions here yet i'm hoping you could think of of greater.

2016-12-29 09:27:29 · answer #3 · answered by reing 3 · 0 0

Cybertooth is the name of a techonology. Check it here:
www.cybertoothtech.com/
You perhaps meant the sabretooth cats?
With their enormous, deadly-sharp canines, saber-toothed carnivores are well known to many people as frightening and ferocious predators of the Cenozoic. Surprisingly, there is more than one "saber-toothed cat." The sabertooth morphology has appeared several times during the history of the mammals. Saber-toothed members of the Carnivora, (the mammalian order that contains cats, dogs, bears, weasels, and others) appeared independently at least twice. Saber teeth evolved both among the true cats, or the family Felidae (these saber-toothed cats are sometimes classified in a separate subfamily of cats, the Machairodontinae) and within the Nimravidae (an extinct carnivore family that was related both to the true cats and to the civets and mongooses). The Hyaenodontidae, a family of the extinct mammalian order Creodonta, also included saber-toothed members. Even saber-toothed marsupial "cats" or thylacosmilids inhabited South America from the upper Miocene to the late Pliocene. The saber-tooth morphology is an excellent example of convergent evolution as it appeared in several evolutionary lineages independently.

Why the enormous teeth? Certainly they were used in hunting, but opinions vary as to exactly how they were used. Some paleontologists have suggested that they were used to grab and hold onto prey. However, attacking a large herbivore this way could easily break the saber teeth and saber teeth that were demonstrably broken during an animal's lifetime are rare in fossil deposits. A more plausible hypothesis suggests that saber teeth were used to deliver a fatal ripping wound to the belly or throat of a prey animal. Sabertooth carnivores may not have tried to grapple with prey. More likely, delivered one crippling stab wound and then waited for the prey to die.

Two most famous sabertooth animals are:
1.The "saber-toothed tiger," Smilodon, is the California State Fossil and the second most common fossil mammal found in the La Brea tar pits. The name "saber-toothed tiger" is misleading as these animals are not closely related to tigers. Juvenile to adult-sized fossils are represented in the large Berkeley collections. The first Chairman of the University of California Department of Paleontology, Professor John C. Merriam, and his student Chester Stock, monographed the morphology of this great carnivore in 1932. Since then, hundreds of thousands of Smilodon bones have been found at La Brea. These finds have permitted remarkably detailed reconstructions of how Smilodon lived. We now know Smilodon was about a foot shorter than living lions but was nearly twice as heavy. Also, unlike cheetahs and lions (which have long tails that help provide balance when the animals run) Smilodon had a bobtail. These suggest that Smilodon did not chase down prey animals over long distances as lions, leopards, and cheetahs do. Instead, it probably charged from ambush, waiting for its prey to come close before attacking.

Smilodon is a relatively recent sabertooth, from the Late Pleistocene. It went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Fossils have been found all over North America and Europe. Smilodon fossils from the La Brea tar pits include bones that show evidence of serious crushing or fracture injuries, or crippling arthritis and other degenerative diseases. Such problems would have been debilitating for the wounded animals. Yet many of these bones show extensive healing and regrowth indicating that even crippled animals survived for some time after their injuries. How did they survive? It seems most likely that they were cared for, or at least allowed to feed, by other saber-toothed cats. Solitary hunters with crippling injuries would not be expected to live long enough for the bones to heal. Smilodon appears to have lived in packs and had a social structure like modern lions. They were unlike tigers and all other living cats, which are solitary hunters. Occasional finds of sabertooth-sized holes in Smilodon bones suggest the social life of Smilodon was not always peaceful. The cats may have fought over food or mates as lions do today. Such fights were probably accompanied by loud roaring. From the structure of the hyoid bones in the throat of Smilodon, we know it could roar.
2.Hoplophoneus is another type of saber-toothed cat classified in the Felidae or true cat family. This creature lived in the Oligocene (e.g., about 20 million years older than Smilodon). This picture shows various bones of the skeleton of Hoplophoneus. Note the skull with its saber teeth in the center of the picture. The canines have a sharp bend and fit into a groove on an expanded process on the lower jaw: a feature seen in other sabertooths but not in Smilodon. Note also that Hoplophoneus was a relatively small cat. The skull is only about 15 cm long. Hoplophoneus was roughly the size of a bobcat, or about one and a half to two times the size of a housecat.
For more information, look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabertooth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon
You will also find pictures in the source-link.

2007-04-14 01:28:21 · answer #4 · answered by Ruchira 4 · 0 0

Not Cyber man, Sabertooh.It belonged to the cat family.It was the ancestor of tiger.

2007-04-14 01:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by Shanil 2 · 0 0

Cat family - cybertooth Tiger

2007-04-14 01:01:24 · answer #6 · answered by rowanwagner 5 · 0 0

Are you thinking of the Smilodon, or saber tooth tiger? http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/carnivora/sabretooth.html

You realize there were no computers, so there could be no cyber-anything back then, right?

2007-04-14 01:04:42 · answer #7 · answered by Kacky 7 · 0 0

I think that it was a tiger. And it is "saber toothed tiger."

2007-04-14 01:01:14 · answer #8 · answered by Max 6 · 0 0

the tiger

2007-04-14 11:18:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Cybertooth? Did he run around with a laptop strapped to his back or what? lol

2007-04-14 01:00:01 · answer #10 · answered by Army Retired Guy 5 · 2 0

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