enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Smilodon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon

    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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_predator

    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. Machairodontinae - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodontinae

    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).

  5. Ancient saber-toothed predator found in Spain is the oldest ...

    www.aol.com/news/ancient-saber-toothed-predator...

    The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills a longstanding gap in the fossil record.

  6. Machairodus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machairodus

    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.

  7. Prehistoric Predators - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Predators

    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.

  8. Researchers find evidence that large sharks may be hunting ...

    www.aol.com/researchers-evidence-large-sharks...

    In the ocean food chain, large sharks generally only have to worry about keeping orcas at bay — but a new study suggests the apex predators may have to watch out for their own.. Researchers have ...

  9. Homotherium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homotherium

    Homotherium is an extinct genus of scimitar-toothed cat belonging to the extinct subfamily Machairodontinae that inhabited North America, Eurasia, and Africa (as well as possibly South America) during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs from around 4 million to 12,000 years ago.