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  2. Smilodon - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 December 2024. Extinct genus of saber-toothed cat Smilodon Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 2.5–0.01 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted S. populator skeleton at Tellus Science Museum Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class ...

  3. Saber-toothed predator - Wikipedia

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    The development of the saber-toothed condition appears to represent a shift in function and killing behavior, rather than one in predator-prey relations. Many hypotheses exist concerning saber-tooth killing methods, some of which include attacking soft tissue such as the belly and throat, where biting deep was essential to generate killing blows.

  4. Machairodus - Wikipedia

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    Machairodus (from Greek: μαχαίρα machaíra, 'knife' and Greek: ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') [2] is a genus of large machairodont or ''saber-toothed cat'' that lived in Africa, Eurasia and North America during the late Miocene. It is the animal from which the subfamily Machairodontinae gets its name.

  5. Watch these wild animals steal the spotlight in unforgettable ...

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    Watch the video below to see an enthusiastic soccer-playing elk. A California bear with a hankering for healthy snacks pulled off a daring heist at a La Cañada Flintridge family's garage.

  6. Florida police warn residents to avoid loose monkeys spotted ...

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    Florida police are advising residents in the town of Orange City to avoid monkeys that have been sighted roaming around the community this week. ... In a Dec. 5 video posted on Facebook by St ...

  7. Machairodontinae - Wikipedia

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    Machairodontinae is an extinct subfamily of carnivoran mammals of the family Felidae (true cats). They were found in Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe, with the earliest species known from the Middle Miocene, with the last surviving species (belonging to the genera Smilodon and Homotherium) becoming extinct around Late Pleistocene-Holocene transition (~13-10,000 years ago).

  8. Prehistoric Predators - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric Predators is a 2007 National Geographic Channel program based on different predators that lived in the Cenozoic era, including Smilodon and C. megalodon.The series investigated how such beasts hunted and fought other creatures, and what drove them to extinction.

  9. Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

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    It compares the overkill hypothesis (predator hunting = 0) with second-order predation (predator hunting varied between 0.01 and 0.05 for different runs). The findings are that second-order predation is more consistent with extinction than is overkill [169] [170] (results graph at left). The Pleistocene extinction model is the only test of ...