This wasn’t always a mystery. If you had the misfortune of being a human being more than 10,000 years ago, there’s a decent chance you were intimately aware of what a saber-tooth cat sounded like.

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 preservation ...

Paleontologists discovered two new species of saber-toothed cats that roamed South Africa more than 5 million years ago. Skull and teeth remains from two unknown species of ancient predators, plus ...

How did North America's saber-toothed cats hunt without breaking their unwieldy saber-like canines, which are vulnerable to sideways bending stresses? A paleontologist provides mechanical evidence ...

Saber teeth — the large fangs of saber-tooth cat fame — are fearsome. They evolved at least five times in predators that are now extinct, but there's been something of a mystery as to why. Saber teeth ...

Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence of bone disease in their joints, according to new research. Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence ...

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