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Saber-toothed cats like Smilodon lived in an era of giant powerful shoulders and forelimbs, as well as those terrifying
plant-eating mammals known as megaherbivores. These teeth. It probably ambushed its prey, leaping onto them and
included many extinct animals, as well as ancestral elephants, wrestling victims to the ground with its claws. Smilodon would
rhinos, and bison. Although tempting targets for big predators, then use its long sabers to bite deep into the animal’s neck,
these animals were hard to kill because of their size and slicing through major blood vessels with surgical precision.
strength. But Smilodon was built for the job, with immensely For the victim, it would all be over very quickly.

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