what do they feed on?
They fed on peccary "Platygonus" and the llama-like "Hemiauchenia", bison, tapirs, deer etc
Smilodon
 peccary "Platygonus" and the llama-like "Hemiauchenia"
when did the saber toothed cat become extinct It became extinct 10,000 years ago in the Quaternary extinction event. what is smilodon? is a genus of the extinct machairodont subfamily of the felids. how does it look like? It is well-developed forelimbs and exceptionally long upper canine teeth and its jaw has a bigger gape than that of modern cats. how did it get its name? Lund named it Smilodon populator which the Ancient Greek meaning of "Smilodon" as ("smilē"), "scalpel" or "two-edged knife", and "οδόντος" ("odontús"), "tooth". how friendly is their behavior with humans? UNANSWERABLE where can these creatures be widely found? Fossils were found in parts of North America, South America and as far as north Alberta, Canada.
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Smilodon [SEP] Predatory behavior
An apex predator, "Smilodon" primarily hunted large mammals. Isotopes preserved in the bones of "S. fatalis" in the La Brea Tar Pits reveal that ruminants like bison ("Bison antiquus", which was much larger than the modern American bison) and camels ("Camelops") were most commonly taken by the cats there. In addition, isotopes preserved in the tooth enamel of "S. gracilis" specimens from Florida show that this species fed on the peccary "Platygonus" and the llama-like "Hemiauchenia". In rare cases, "Smilodon" may have also targeted glyptodonts, based on a "Glyptotherium" skull that bears elliptical puncture marks consistent with the size and diameter of its canine teeth.