The adolescent saber-toothed cat on a summertime hunt realized too late that she had made a terrible miscalculation. Already the size of a modern-day tiger, with huge canine teeth, she had crept ...

The saber-tooth cat, unearthed in 2020 ... “It also complements the external features—the fur color, the muzzle size, ear size, the shape of the foot pads, etc. These characters cannot ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...