Evidence suggests saber-toothed cats held onto their baby teeth to stabilize their sabers California's state fossil—are familiar to anyone who has ever visited Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits, a sticky trap from which more than 2,000 saber-toothed cat skulls have been excavated over more than a century.
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