Fuzzy Fossils Smilodon

Description

Saber-toothed cats were members of the feline family, famous for their massive canine teeth. The most famous is smilodon, which lived for over 2 million years during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs of the Quaternary period. Smilodon is sometimes called saber-toothed tiger, although it was not closely related to tigers.