How did the sabre tooth tiger become extinct?
The saber tooth tiger lived during the end of the Quaternary Period, (the end of the Dinousaurs) and during the Ice Age. It could be found all over the world. It was thought to have become extinct because of the rising sea levels. (During the Ice Age, when the water froze and the sea levels dropped, it uncovered more land, and that’s where the saber tooth tiger lived, but at the end of the Ice Age, when the sea waters rose again, it covered the saber tooth tiger’s environment. Smilodon became extinct around 10,000 years ago. Some have suggested that humans could have indirectly contributed to its extinction, either by hunting the cat’s main prey or by infecting the population with a virus. Others have suggested that the Ice age caused the extinction. As the ice age ended there would have been shrinking environments and changing vegetation patterns. Extensive grasslands, with different types of grasses, and isolated forests replaced healthy mixes of forests and grasslands. The summer an
