over 3 ft 0 in (91.4 cm)
A smilodon stood over 3 ft 0 in (91.4 cm) at the shoulder (reconstruction estimate).
Source: National Park Service
How tall is a smilodon?
A smilodon stood over 3 ft 0 in (91.4 cm) at the shoulder (reconstruction estimate).
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What a smilodon’s height measures
Smilodon died out around 13,000 to 9,000 years ago, at the end of the Pleistocene, along with most of the other large animals of the Americas.
Source: Wikipedia
Drawn at the same 3 ft 0 in: Brown bear, Black bear and Wood stork. Same drawing, different listings: a smilodon’s and a wood stork’s figures are each a minimum, a brown bear’s the lower end of its range.
This is a published species or breed reference, not a prediction for an individual animal. Where a range is supplied, both ends appear with the reading. Shoulder height and head height are kept apart when comparing animals.
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