Where were saber tooth tigers found?

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 ... The "saber-toothed tiger," Smilodon, is the California State Fossil and the second most common fossil mammal found in the La Brea tar pits. read more

The saber-toothed cats were found worldwide from the Eocene epoch to the end of the Pleistocene epoch (42 million years ago – 11,000 years ago), existing for about One of the best-known genera is Smilodon, species of which, especially S. fatalis, are popularly, but incorrectly referred as a "saber-toothed tiger," a genus within the subfamily Machairodontinae of the carnivoran family Felidae. read more

Remains of a Sabre toothed tiger the size of a horse found off British coast The partial leg bone of a sabre-toothed tiger which was the size of a horse has been dredged from the seabed by a trawler in the North Sea. read more

* The Saber Tooth Tiger lived in North America and Europe during the Miocene and Pliocene Epoch (23 million to 2.6 million years ago). * They spread to Asia and Africa after Pliocene Epoch. read more