A mummified Ice Age cub from Siberia is the first known mummy of a saber-toothed cat, and its discovery is generating ripples of excitement among paleontologists. The mummy’s exceptional ...

They've evolved at least five times in mammals, most notably in the saber-tooth cat Smilodon, who sported serrated sabers that could measure nearly one foot long. But behind the fearsome ...

F or the first time in the history of science, researchers have extracted the mummified, frozen body of a young saber-toothed cat from the Arctic permafrost. Although the remains are over 35,000 ...

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 ...

These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, most notably in the saber-tooth cat Smilodon, who sported serrated sabers ...