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 ...

A recent visit to a fossil collection in a South African quarry discovered two new species of sabertooth cats. Africa's sabertooth collection now includes 5.2 million-year-old feline fossils. Among ...

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 ...

The sabertooth tiger is one of the most iconic extinct animals around. Along with the dinosaurs and the wooly mammoth, just about everyone has heard of these amazing creatures, which have been extinct ...

Calling all "Ice Age" lovers: The frozen remains of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed cat have been studied for the first time in history, according to a study published Thursday in the journal ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago as ice sheets melted and the planet warmed, around 100 species of gigantic animals started to disappear without a trace. Paleontologists have sought to understand ...

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Researchers say that evidence of osteochondrosis dissecans in the ice age predators offers insights to how they went extinct. By Miriam Fauzia Some 50,000 to 10,000 years ago as ice sheets melted and ...