Question

The skeletons of a saber-toothed tiger and a present-day tiger are shown above. Which of the following is a structural difference between the saber-toothed and the present-day tiger?

Answer 1

The right answer is: the teeth, the scapulae, and the tail length

The saber tooth tiger is a feline native to America, gone thousands of years ago when the megafauna was extinguished.It was characterized by prominent canines about twenty centimeters long, weighing about 250 kilograms and impressive skeleton and musculature. His tail was always short and his claws, like most big felines, were long and retractable.

Answer 2

The correct answer is the size of scapulae, size of teeth, and length of the tail.

A saber-toothed cat refers to any member of numerous extinct groups of predatory mammals, which were featured by curved and long saber-shaped canine teeth. The large maxillary canine teeth elongated from the mouth even when it was closed.

The saber-toothed cats were found globally from the Eocene epoch to the termination of the Pleistocene era that is, existing for almost 42 million years.