No doubt about it: saber-toothed tigers are awesome. Or at least they were. These iconic creatures lived on this planet as far back as 42 million years ago and ate mammoths, elephants, and even rhinos ...

Saber-toothed tigers may have had two sets of their famous fangs for a period of their adolescence, fossil evidence reveals. One species of these ancient and extinct cats, famed for their large and ...

In the animated movie “Ice Age,” there was a scary, saber-tooth tiger named Diego — which had real-life counterparts that lived in Iowa some 13,000 years ago during the real Ice Age. Researchers at ...

What do penguins, Arctic foxes, and mammoths have in common? They are all masters of adapting to extreme cold. But how exactly did some animals withstand the icy temperatures of the Ice Age? Why did ...

Sabre-toothed tigers and dire wolves that lived in the last glacial period had surprisingly high rates of an inheritable bone disease, which might reflect inbreeding as the ancient carnivores ...

A saber-toothed tiger's tooth, known to be at least 11,000 years old, was apparently stolen sometime last year from the lobby of what is now AmSouth Bank. The tooth had been part of a small display of ...

Saber-toothed cats and dire wolves, two predators that roamed the Earth during the last Ice Age, may have had a high rate of a developmental bone disease, according to a new study of their remains.

During their prime, saber-toothed tigers weighed up to 750 pounds. For comparison, a modern male African lion weighs about 450 pounds, according to Zoo Atlanta. The bigger cats existed 56 million to ...