Smilodon, commonly known as a saber-toothed cat or more inaccurately, the 'saber-toothed tiger', is an extinct carnivorous mammal that lived that lived through the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs. It is the largest and most famously known of a race of predatory felines called the Saber-Toothed Cats. Its fangs could've reached a foot long.[2] Smilodon was been known to ambush big and slow animals and able to pin them down to the ground and used its saber teeth to bite at the neck of the prey. Smilodon may have also lived and hunted in groups like wolves, though this is debated.
Smilodon belonged to a subfamily within Felidae named Machairodontinae, and at least 3 species are known: S. populator (the type species), S. fatalis, and S. gracilis.
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In the franchise
Jurassic Park
Even though they don't appear in Jurassic Park, there are a series of stuffed Smilodon dolls seen on the toy shelves in the Gallimimus Gift Shop inside the Visitor Center.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Smilodon appears as a skull displayed on Lockwood Manor in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
Smilodon is set to appear in the fourth season of the show. It attacks the kids at a bonfire.
Games
Jurassic Park: Builder
see Smilodon/Builder
Smilodon can be created in the Glacier Park section. It can only be created by collecting a rare DNA sample from a glacial expedition.
Jurassic World: The Game
see Smilodon/JW: TG
Smilodon was added to the game as a creatable super rare Cenozoic animal on the February 15, 2017 update. It was changed to a legendary tournament on the November 5th, 2019 update.
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Jurassic World: Alive
see Smilodon/JW: A
Smilodon is a epic Cenozoic creature in Jurassic World: Alive.
Trivia
- Smilodon had a much shorter tail in life than what is portrayed in Jurassic Park: Builder. In Jurassic World: The Game and Jurassic World: Alive, it is correctly depicted with a very short tail.
