The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including short-faced bears, ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber-toothed cat that inhabited North America more than 5 million years ago.

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 to evolve.

Dark brown fur still covers the head and front of a saber-toothed cat cub that died tens of thousands of years ago. Two rows ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first documented evidence that a particular species of saber-toothed cats used to live in what's now Iowa might help humanity ...

Discovered several years ago, this remarkably preserved saber-tooth cub is offering a rare glimpse into its species and life as it existed over 30,000 years ago. Reading time 3 minutes Six years ago, ...

The newly discovered fossils, dating back to roughly 5 million years ago, could have implications for human bipedalism, researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Paleontologists recently revisited a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Ice Age’s most famous predator, Smilodon, killed with ...

Saber-toothed cats may have been limping toward extinction long before they vanished. A new study of more than 3,700 vertebrae from Smilodon fatalis found at Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits documents ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Matthew G. Hill, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) The sabertooth cat is an Ice ...