Scientists identified the tiny species of cat from a fossilized jawbone, which could date back as far as 300,000 years ago.

The mummy’s exceptional preservation provided the first view of what saber-toothed cats looked like. Written in its soft tissues are clues about where the cat’s muscles were bulkiest and how ...

With long, thin blades protruding from their mouths, saber-toothed cats roamed the Earth during the last ice age, alongside woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths and mastodons. They lived from the ...

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 ...