The Saber-toothed Tiger, although very powerfully built, with long, knife-like canines, rivaling the Tyrannosaurus Rex as one of the greatest killing machines of all time, had a very weak bite comparatively to the modern day lion. The Smilodon was not a predator of smaller prey like today’s lion.

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Ngandong Tigers are the biggest sub-species of tiger to ever walk on Earth, whereas American Lions are the largest big cats of all time!

Fossils found inSchöningen, Germany, suggests that around 300,000 years ago Humans and Saber Tooth Tigers confronted each other. However, there no such evidence that suggests that saber tooth tiger ate humans.

Instead, these cats used their canines for slicing and ripping the softest parts for their prey — their throats and abdomens. Most likely, saber-tooth cats’ prey died slowly from loss of blood rather than quickly from strangulation or a broken neck.

Scientists theorize that environmental change, decline in prey population, and human activity lead to the death of the saber-tooth tiger some 10,000 years ago.

Smilodon died out at the same time that most North and South American megafauna disappeared, about 10,000 years ago. Its reliance on large animals has been proposed as the cause of its extinction, along with climate change and competition with other species, but the exact cause is unknown.

Saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis). Smilodon was a large animal that weighed 160 to 280 kg (350-620 lbs), larger than lions and about the size of Siberian tigers. Smilodon was different from living large cats, with proportionally longer front legs and a much more muscular build.

The extinction pattern of the last of the sabre-toothed cats closely followed that of the mastodons. As those elephant-like animals became extinct in the Old World during the late Pliocene, sabre-toothed cats died out also.

But it would have to get a successful bite first. Also, the estimated bite force of the Smilodon is estimated to be about a third of that of a lion so they could not really bite hard. They needed those sabers to cause deep wounds instead. So the tiger would definitely bite harder but the Smilodon would do more damage.

Barbary lion can reach up to 300kg standing at about a meter tall and around 11.5 feet in length. Tigers have around 10% body fat and lion have 13% body fat.

Saber toothed tiger is believed to be around 550 kg as well. It means the cat was usually around 1100 pounds. On the other hand a modern day Siberian Tiger weighs around 600 pounds. These figures make saber-toothed tigers as much bigger than lions and tigers.

A pack of dire wolves would almost certainly defeat a lion, but a lone wolf would be at a disadvantage, as these animals typically hunt as a team, Hinde said. In a one-on-one confrontation, the lion could easily emerge the victor — much as House Lannister has done for much of the series.

Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin didn’t invent dire wolves, the animals famously given to Stark family children (even Jon Snow) as pets in the book and TV series. They’re a real, but now extinct, canine species that lived from 125,000 years ago until around 9,500 years ago.

Direwolves because they seem like very adept fighters when in large groups and they fight with a ferocity lions can’t match. Direwolf, not wolf. Direwolves are much bigger then lions. Here is the correct size of a direwolf.