Answer:First off, they are not tigers. Smilodon and related species are from a group called the Machairodonts, which is a sister group to modern felines.
But yes, Smilodon fatalis is one of about twenty species that geneticists think that they will be able to clone in the not-too-distant future, together with woolly mammoths, dodo birds, moa, and giant ground sloths.
I’m not sure if that’s possible right now, as in July 23 2020, but it is certainly within the realm of possibility, unlike the cloning of Mesozoic dinosaurs.
I would imagine that a mountain lion would be the surrogate mother, as modern pantherines, though closer in size to sabertooths, are far too rare and valuable to experiment on in this way.
