The famous saber-tooth cat that lived in North America beginning about 2 million years ago survived by ambushing prey such as ...

"Those upper canines were extremely efficient but also break very easily." ...

New biomechanical research shows Smilodon's legendary saber teeth came with a surprisingly weak bite — and reveals the real ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Learn about a surprise find of an early saber-toothed cat skull in a museum drawer, revealing how the teeth of ancient cats ...

Sabertooth cats make up a diverse group of long-toothed predators that roamed Africa around 6–7 million years ago, around the time that hominins—the group that includes modern humans—began to evolve.

University of California, Berkeley researchers studying fossils found in a museum collection are now helping to clarify how ...

A recent visit to a fossil collection in a South African quarry discovered two new species of sabertooth cats. Africa's sabertooth collection now includes 5.2 million-year-old feline fossils. Among ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew G. Hill, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) The sabertooth cat is an Ice ...

Discovered several years ago, this remarkably preserved saber-tooth cub is offering a rare glimpse into its species and life as it existed over 30,000 years ago. Reading time 3 minutes Six years ago, ...

Carnivore fossils are extremely rare, though, in comparison to those of their prey. Prey are always more abundant than predators in a healthy ecosystem. So the probability of burial, storage and ...