Imagine a world where enormous cats once prowled the wilderness with teeth so long, they looked like ivory daggers. Most ...

Smilodon and its extinct saber-toothed relatives are on a branch of the cat family tree that is far from today’s cats. Scientists think Smilodon ’s branch diverged from the ancestors of all ...

Illustration of Smilodon attacking Ground Sloth Photo: De Agostini via Getty Images/De Agostini via Getty Images . It’s Not the Number of Hyoids, But How You Use Them. Saber-tooth cats branched ...

On a superficial level, the predatory habits of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon would not seem to be especially mysterious. Traditionally – and incorrectly – restored as a lion with extra-long ...

The sabertooth cat (Smilodon fatalis), one of the most iconic extinct mammal species, was likely to be a social animal, living and hunting like lions today, according to new scientific research.

Until about 10,000 years ago, the saber-tooth cat Smilodon fatalis was a fearsome predator in what is now the American West. More than 3,000 fossilized cats have been pulled from the acrid ooze of ...

A mechanical analysis of the distinctive canines of California's saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth that preceded each saber stayed in place for years to stabilize ...

While there are several saber-toothed cats, this Smilodon species is the most well-preserved in the fossil record, showing the animal likely prowled across the grasslands of North America and ...

"The new species shows that the most famous saber-toothed cat, Smilodon, had a New World origin, and it and its ancestors lived in the southeastern U.S. for at least 5 million years before their ...

Sabertooth Cats Might Have Purred, Roared, Or Made A Noise All Of Their Own. ... servals, and ocelots – were compared to 105 hyoid bones from the sabertooth cat Smilodon fatalis. ...

Saber-tooth cats (Machairodontinae) and modern house cats (Felis catus) shared a common ancestor … 20 million years ago.Perhaps one of the best-recognized large mammals of the Pleistocene epoch ...