Another science study claimed at least some saber-toothed cats suffered higher teeth breakage than modern cats: “A Comparison of Tooth Wear and Breakage in Rancho La Brea Sabertooth Cats and Dire Wolves Across Time” (http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1080/02724630903413016).
There is the possibility that the starvation-based extinction was very gradual over thousands of years, thus, the starvation is difficult to notice. In addition, starvation possibly created other factors that facilitated the extinction of saber-toothed cats.
Scientists have found plentiful evidence that natural climate-change changed the ecosystem of saber-toothed cats. For example, large prey populations gradually decreased in both quantity of individuals and variety of species and sub-species. Saber-toothed cats probably preferred large prey over medium to small prey. Compared to modern big cats, the last species of saber-toothed cats were probably inferior runners due to the saber-toothed cats’ stockier limbs and stockier torso. In comparison to modern big cats, the most recent species of saber-toothed cats also had proportionally larger front limbs, and proportionally smaller rear legs, which is inferior for running and jumping. This means saber-toothed cats excelled at using their front legs to smack and grab onto prey, but struggled to chase down faster prey. Thus, saber-toothed cats probably excelled at fighting against larger and slower prey, but they struggled with capturing smaller and faster prey.
Saber-toothed cats obviously had two long canines that were excellent for causing fatal or crippling stab wounds into prey. However, the canines’ long length and oval shape made them more susceptible to excess torque or breakage when compared to the shorter and rounder canines of modern big cats. The long canines in the upper jaw also required a lower jaw that opened very widely (e.g., ~90 degrees between the hinges for the upper and longer jaws). This gigantic jaw flexibility resulted in a weak bite force. Saber-toothed cats had very strong neck muscles. Thus, saber-toothed cats had jaws for piercing deeply into voluminous flesh, not for crushing. Modern big cats have much stronger bite forces for relatively shallow piercing, superior seizing, stronger strangulation, and/or better choking of prey. This further indicates saber-toothed cats evolved to hunt larger and slower prey, and modern big cats evolved to hunt smaller and faster prey.
The gradual loss of large prey populations possibly created a gradual decline in the population of saber-toothed cats. Their typical foods sources did not immediately disappear or quickly and greatly decrease. In other words, a tiny percentage died off each year, and this pattern repeated over at least many thousands of years. At any given moment, the vast majority did NOT suffer and die from starvation.
Here is a simple or general example. For one year, the global ecosystem could have enough prey to support a population with a net-total of 1,000,000 saber-toothed cats. For the next year, the ecosystem could have enough prey to feed 999,950 saber-toothed cats. In other words, 50 cats or 0.005% of cats did not have enough prey during the second year. The third year provides enough prey for 999,900 saber-toothed cats, which is another decrease of 50 cats. Repeat this very gradual decline for 20,000 years. Eventually, the ecosystem will end up with zero saber-toothed cats. Thus, for each year, the overwhelmingly vast majority of cats were at least adequately fed. However, a tiny fraction starved. Eventually, this tiny fraction starved to death.
As the ecosystem gradually changed and slowly diminished the supply of large prey, the saber-toothed cats’ population also shrank at a barely noticeable rate. This gradual starvation should be very hard to track or notice in the fossil record, which is highly and naturally incomplete.
This gradual starvation would cause other survival challenges. Predators might fight against each other at a higher frequency over gradually dwindling food sources and habitable territories. This should gradually increase the death rate. Saber-toothed cats were possibly forced to depend less on hunting larger and slower prey and depend more on hunting smaller and faster prey. This would slow down the starvation problem, but not fix it. These gradually worsening challenges should cause a glacial decrease in the birth rate of saber-toothed cats. Eventually, the birth rate became lower than the death rate. This would slowly result in extinction that’s not clear-cut, but subtle in the fossil record.
Here’s another take on evolution and extinction: “Montana newspaper exposes hilarious ‘facts’ on display at creationist museum” (http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/montana-newspaper-exposes-hilarious-facts-on-display-at-creationist-museum). Evolution is a myth according to Zionist Christians, and extinction is Holy punishment against evildoers. See below for some more unbelievable news for the week.
Since its very beginning, Google has been enjoying insider deals and revolving doors with the US government: “The Android Administration: Google's Remarkably Close Relationship with the Obama White House, in Two Charts” (https://theintercept.com/2016/04/22/googles-remarkably-close-relationship-with-the-obama-white-house-in-two-charts/). Google is obviously one of the corporate tentacles of the US oligarchy. The White House is one of the public or government tentacles of the US oligarchy.
Hillary Clinton wants to be the next White House president, but she has a nasty history: “12 year old girl was raped by three men so brutally that she was rendered unable to bare children. Hillary slandered her in court… And then laughed about it forty years later.” (http://investmentwatchblog.com/12-year-old-girl-was-raped-by-three-men-so-brutally-that-she-was-rendered-unable-to-bare-children-hillary-slandered-her-in-court-and-then-laughed-about-it-forty-years-later/). That’s merely a microscopic fraction of the crimes committed by Hillary Clinton and her ilk. Hillary Clinton has a long history of being a pathological liar and insanely power-hungry. Recently, Hillary Clinton and her ilk waged a war against terrorism by supporting proxy terrorists throughout the Middle East and North Africa: “Seymour Hersh Says Hillary Approved Sending Libya’s Sarin to Syrian Rebels” (http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2016/04/28/seymour-hersh-hillary-approved-sending-libya-sarin-syrian-rebels.html).
Hillary Clinton is a top candidate for US leadership positions according to the US mainstream media and its global partners (e.g., ABCNNBCBS, Faux News, New York Slimes, Associated Presstitutes, Reumers, Hollyweirdo, & British Buggering Children). These media institutions are definitely the propaganda and agitprop tentacles of the US oligarchy.
Dumb-mock-crazy elections or (relative) majority tyranny insists the only good alternative to the Democrat Party’s Hellarrhea Clinton (who is the queen to Duke Swill Clit-Tongue) is the Republican Party’s candidates. Dennis Hastert was once a top-ranking congressman who was a member of the Republican Party (i.e., GOP). In the 1990s, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and his ilk unctuously accused President Bill Clinton of being an inexcusable liar and intolerable pervert, thus, Dennis Hastert and the GOP tried to impeach President Bill Clinton.
Keep in mind Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton secretly have an open marriage in order to protect their political careers. The GOP feigned outrage against Bill Clinton, because he (at the very very very very least) had oral sex with Monica Lewinsky, who was a consenting adult. Bill Clinton has a lot more mistresses and a few women who accused him of sexual harassment and rape. To protect his political career, Bill Clinton lied by saying he did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky. The evidence proved otherwise. Then Bill Clinton tried to twist reality into fiction by ridiculously claiming oral sex is not sex.
However, Dennis Hastert is a horrendous hypocrite for trying to impeach Bill Clinton. For many decades, he has been hiding his crimes of being a pedophile rapist: “Calling Dennis Hastert a ‘serial child molester,’ a federal judge in Chicago today sentenced the former Republican House speaker to 15 months in prison, fined him $250,000, and ordered him to participate in a sex offender program” (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/dennis-hastert-sentenced-15-months-prison). In other words, a US oligarch was lightly punished by the US oligarchy’s “justice” system. These people built an incredible mountain of bullshit.