Smilodon and its extinct saber-toothed relatives are on a branch of the cat family tree that is far from today’s cats. Scientists think Smilodon ’s branch diverged from the ancestors of all ...

Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, ... They looked a lot like cats, but they actually belonged on a totally different branch of the carnivore family tree.

Smilodon was the ultimate sabercat. About the size of a tiger, but with burlier arms and elongated fangs that have made the genus famous, the Ice Age carnivore stalked camels, bison, and other ...

Sadly, there are no living Smilodon to study—the last of these cats died out about 8,000 years ago—and the humans who undoubtedly saw them did not think to carefully document their feeding habits.

This major branch of the carnivoran family tree—roughly meaning “cat forms”—includes civets, hyenas, cats and totally extinct forms like the nimravids, cat-like predators that were saber ...

Canadian researchers find apparent family among Smilodon fossils excavated in Ecuador. Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2021 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: January 17, 2021.

In the broader carnivoran family tree, there were at least two other cat-like groups of mammals that independently evolved long saber fangs – predators called nimravids and barbourofelids ...

New research indicates adolescent offspring of the menacing saber-toothed predator, Smilodon fatalis, were more momma's cubs than independent warriors. New research indicates adolescent offspring ...

A surprisingly young fossil jaw found in Europe is helping scientists better climb the sabertooth family tree. A model of a saber-toothed cat on display in Germany. Photograph by Hauke-Christian ...

Lower jaw fossils of a 5-million-year-old saber-toothed cat (Rhizosmilodon fiteae), a smaller relative of the Smilodon species, have been found in Florida. Jeff Gage / University of Florida March ...

A new computer model reveals how much force was generated by the sabre-tooth cat's bite Sporting two canine teeth the size of large kitchen knives, the North American sabre-tooth cat looked every ...