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 ...

As recently as 12,000 years ago, ancient humans shared the Earth with a monster unlike anything we know today — and it was even bigger and more terrifying than we first thought. The saber-tooth tiger ...

Saber-tooth tigers are right up alongside woolly mammoths as one of the Ice Age's most popular megafauna. With butcher knife-like teeth hanging from their jaws ready to tear apart their prey, these ...

New research indicates adolescent offspring of the menacing saber-toothed predator, Smilodon fatalis, were more momma's cubs than independent warriors. New research indicates adolescent offspring of ...

Recent work has suggested that saber tooth tigers aren't the terrifying predators they seem to have been; they may have tended more toward acting like cubs than warriors. Reporting in iScience, ...

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 UB anatomist, sees ...

Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Smilodon : a short history of becoming the iconic sabertooth / H. Gregory McDonald -- 2. The phylogenetic context of Smilodon / Lars Werdelin and Therese Flink -- 3.

Researchers found a single saber-toothed cat bone that belonged to an animal that weighed up to 900 pounds. The new species might have hunted down 6,000-pound animals. It may have been the ancestor of ...

Visitors at a national park in India have captured once-in-a-lifetime footage of a tigress and her three cubs dining on the carcass of a crocodile, which they ambushed and killed as a family. Pictures ...

Side-by-side renderings of the marsupial saber-tooth Thylacosmilus atrox (left) and the saber-tooth cat Smilodon fatalis (right). Stephan Lautenschlager The extinct saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis ...