These cats were large and robust, measuring around the same size as a jaguar. They had an elongated face, lanky front legs, a sloping back and a bobtail. Their characteristic "saber"-like canine ...

The cats were also quite large and rival the size of the largest cats known while dwarfing others. Saber-toothed cats were huge animals and apex predators. They have been estimated to weigh up to ...

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 ...

A prehistoric saber-toothed cat once roamed what is now the Gulf Coast of Texas, a "treasure" of a fossil has revealed. Researchers determined that the fossil belongs to an individual from the ...