The North American saber-tooth cat, Smilodon, is a symbol of the big Ice Age animals that roamed the continent thousands of years ago. But the sabercat’s gigantic fangs remain a mystery.

The North American saber-tooth cat, Smilodon, is a symbol of the big Ice Age animals that roamed the continent thousands of years ago. But the sabercat's gigantic fangs remain a mystery.

The enormous canines of the extinct sabre-toothed cat Smilodon imply that this animal had to open its jaw extremely wide, 110° according to some authors, in order to use them effectively ...

On a superficial level, the predatory habits of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon would not seem to be especially mysterious. Traditionally – and incorrectly – restored as a lion with extra-long ...

The Story of Saberteeth. Season 1 Episode 6 | 5m 26s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger. Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the ...

Smilodon fatalis has its name for a reason. With swordlike canines, the saber-tooth cat is widely thought to have waited in silence before lunging and dealing devastating wounds to the soft ...

If this is correct, then Smilodon probably had a different mating system than lions do, but whether they also hunted in prides remains an open question for paleontologists. Top Image: A ...

It had been thought that Smilodon was like the lion, hunting in open areas. But the new study disproved that. More than 700 Rancho La Brea teeth were analyzed from a wide variety of animals.

Like Smilodon, Xenosmilus' teeth demanded a specialized mouth—so, as researcher Virginia Naples explained to LiveScience, “It had to have lips that could stretch to allow the jaws to open wide ...

Those of the largest saber-tooth cat, the 900-pound Smilodon fatalis, may have been 6 inches long, which is why the new findings don’t apply to the teeth of the Smilodon: no jaw could ...

When a lion wants to roar, it opens its mouth and “this ligament stretches from about six to about nine inches, giving it the ability to widen the throat and make a deeper tone,” says Shaw.

How much time does it take to grow a 7-inch-long mouth dagger? Our new video explains: The saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis roamed America during the Pleistocene before going extinct about ...