Mighty saber-toothed tiger
Saber-toothed tigers lived roughly in the Holocene period 3 million to 15,000 years ago, and we will find that this prehistoric human existence period coincides, that is, these saber-toothed tigers and humans lived together for 3 million years.
Saber-toothed tigers were once widely distributed in Eurasia and the Americas, but the United States has unearthed the most complete fossils. One of the most representative is that more than 2,000 saber-toothed tiger fossils have been excavated from the Hancock Fossil Park in the United States. The park was earlier an asphalt lake, and it is speculated that these large groups of saber-toothed tigers came here to feed, not knowing why they were buried in this lake.
Saber-toothed tigers are 1.8m long and weigh 500-800 kg, belonging to the heavy athletes of the feline family. These ferocious kings had half-foot-long canine teeth, which were the predation tools of the Fourth Ice Age when thick fur and bulky animals were exuberant, and the saber-toothed tiger was indeed the king of that era. Because of this, the saber-toothed tiger did not evolve flexible limbs and strong hunting ability, especially for small animals, which became a fatal weakness at the end of the Fourth Ice Age, when his climate warmed and large pachygforms went extinct. Human evolution, began to use tools, and saber-toothed tigers to compete for prey, and even hunted saber-toothed tigers, coupled with the inability to prey on small and medium-sized animals, they ran fast and flexible, saber-toothed tigers gradually became extinct, which occurred roughly 20,000-15,000 years ago.
The extinction of the saber-toothed tiger has made the tiger lion and these cats the king of the cat family, in the era when their eldest brother saber-toothed tiger dominated, cats like tigers were only as big as domestic cats and could only prey on small animals; It is this feature that dooms the tiger to be good at running, sensitive hands, and even climb trees; But at the end of the Fourth Ice Age, the extinction of saber-toothed tigers and the flourishing of large herbivores, cats such as lions and tigers had plenty of food, and also made their size evolve larger and larger, unable to climb trees.
In fact, the biggest enemy of lions and tigers is not the environment or other beasts, it is precisely human beings, and human competitiveness exceeds that of any animal; But it was humans who survived to protect lions and tigers.
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