It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones, even when there are plenty of them, as there are for ...

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 ...

Sabertooth tigers may have been fearsome hunters, but they probably sounded more like a harmless house cat. A new study investigating the extinct big cat Smilodon fatalis suggests it is more likely ...

To some people it may have been just a small bone; a darkened and fossilized relic laying in a creek bed since the end of the last ice age. But thousands of years ago it was a part of one of the most ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cringe. That's what most people do when they look at fossils of the impressive, eight-inch-long canines of the now extinct sabertooth tiger, Smilodon fatalis. But Frank Mendel, a ...