From the Oligocene through the Pleistocene

Usage examples of sabertooth.

You feel like trying to escape, remember that the amphicyons are outside and so are the sabertooth cats and a really trick orange salamander the size of a collie dog with venom like a king cobra Have a nice rest.

Was it machairodus, one of the leonine sabertooth cats that were the commonest large predators of the Pliocene?

It was what was called the sabertooth tiger or smilodon, and its fur was tawny and unstriped.

Creek realized they considered her one with the sabertoothed cat-kin, no longer human.

The only other intelligent species populating that ancient ancestor-dimension of Earth were the Great Cats of whom Felis domesticus and its many cousins were the descendants: sabertooths and dire-lions, who had taken refuge in that paradisial otherworld many ages before.

Passing through the grand hall with its imposing pendent banners of purple and crimson, its mounted heads of sabertooths and dragons, arctic bears and tropical thylacines, he turned left just before the imposing entryway and made his way to the smaller door that was nearer the stables.

They sailed around Cape Magellan, depending in a drawn-up curve from the main body of Elizabeth like a giant fang in the upper jaw of a sabertooth cat, and found the Kupe Islands.