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Scientists knew that saber-toothed tigers were big — but this skull changes everything. "To picture a normal individual, ...
By Joshua Sokol When the curator mentioned a huge saber-toothed tiger skull stored ... The new skull suggests an answer. “If Smilodon is getting this big, there’s a potential for it to be ...
D: And that may be on the small side! A recent study examined one of the creature’s skulls. It was sixteen inches long—the largest saber-toothed tiger skull ever found in the Americas.
A tiger-like skull unearthed from 2.5-million-year-old rock is the oldest known complete specimen related to modern big cats, according to a new study. Representing a new species, the skull isn't ...
By measuring the skull size and volume of a large sample of tigers, lions, leopards and jaguars, they found that the tiger has a bigger brain than its big-cat cousins. "When we compare the two ...
Here’s how it works. Scientists have revealed the world's largest-ever cheetah species after analyzing fossils of the behemoth creature's skull. The colossal predator was as heavy as the biggest ...