10 Fun fact: Sabre-toothed tigers weren’t tigersIf you still think they were tigers, you need to get the real sabre-toothed “tiger” facts here: The scientific name for the sabre-toothed tiger is “Smilodon” which means “tooth like a double-edged knife”. It had long canine teeth ...
sabre-toothed cat, any of theextinctcatlikecarnivoresbelonging to either the extinct family Nimravidae or the subfamily Machairodontinae of the cat family (Felidae). Named for the pair of elongated bladelikecanine teethin their upperjaw, they are often called sabre-toothed tigers or sabre-tooth...