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Where Do Sabertooths Live?

Maya Lin-Takahashi • • 7 min read
Where Do Sabertooths Live?

In South America, Saber tooth tigers mostly lived on the western side of the Andes mountains. Its habitat falls in the countries of Chile, Ecuador, and Peru. In North America, it lived in Rancho La Brea in California. About 2000 individuals fossils of the sub-species Smilodon fatalis

Smilodon fatalis
Smilodon lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch (2.5 mya – 10,000 years ago). The genus was named in 1842 based on fossils from Brazil; the generic name means "scalpel" or "two-edged knife" combined with "tooth".
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have been found in this area.

Where do saber tooth cats live?

Sabre-toothed cats roamed North America and Europe throughout the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (23 million to 2.6 million years ago). By Pliocene times, they had spread to Asia and Africa. During the Pleistocene, sabre-toothed cats were also present in South America.

What was the Smilodon habitat?

Smilodon probably lived in closed habitats such as forests and bush, which would have provided cover for ambushing prey. Smilodon died out at the same time that most North and South American megafauna disappeared, about 10,000 years ago.

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