Smilodon fatalis was similar in size to a modern large lion ... An illustration shows a saber-toothed tiger. These cats may have kept both their milk tooth and adult tooth sabers for an extended ...

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 ...