The saber-toothed cats that once prowled modern day California had more distinct dental features than even their sabers would suggest. Some of the complete skulls had a tooth socket occupied by ...

Hyaenodonta individuals would have been slightly more dog-like in appearance, whereas Oxyaenodonts were the more weasel-cat-bear-looking variety (we know that’s vague, but these were very ...

A variety of saber-toothed animals have evolved to fill different niches. Matt Celeskey / Charles R. Knight Public Domain / Juan Carlos Cisneros, Fernando Abdala, Tea Jashashvill, Ana de Oliveira ...

Scientist were able to study a saber-toothed cub dating back 35,000 years due to its well-preserved condition from being protected by ice. Much of the three-week old cub was left intact, even its fur.

Saber teeth took this tradeoff to the extreme, Rayfield and her colleagues report in Current Biology, becoming about as good as they could be at puncturing prey, ultimately sacrificing durability.

A Saber-Toothed Predator From Long Before Evolution Came Up With Cats As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated ...

At the Smithsonian | August 20, 2024 ‘Fearsome’ Saber-Toothed Cats Needed Their Baby Teeth and Mommies, Too. According to new research, two sets of sabers and unusual lower jaw anatomy show ...

A few tens of thousands of years ago, the world would have looked a lot more like a fantasy land. The landscape was covered over by wilderness, humanity not yet having sequestered it to the ...

World’s First Mummified Saber-Toothed Cat Found—and It Has Surprisingly Soft Fur. The Ice Age cub was discovered with its whiskers, paw pads and skin intact.

The species went extinct about 12,000 years ago. Scientists have discovered a pristine fossil of a mummified saber-toothed kitten that had been frozen in the Russian tundra for about 37,000 years ...

Saber-toothed cats were already one of the more intimidating of all ancient creatures, but knowing that they could probably put a hole right in your skull with a single chomp just adds to their ...

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.