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

An artist’s rendering of what the early saber-toothed cat, ‘Adelphailurus kansensis,’ might have looked like in its heyday 5 ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber-toothed cat that inhabited North America more than 5 million years ago.

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY. WELL, SCIENTISTS FOUND A SABER TOOTHED CAT SKULL IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE STATE. THEY SAY IT’S THE FIRST EVIDENCE THAT THE PREDATOR ONCE LIVED IN IOWA. KETV NEWSWATCH 7 SEAN ...

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, ...