Scientists in Russia have made an extraordinary discovery in the northeast of the country: a perfectly preserved body of a saber-toothed tiger cub from 32,000 years ago. Remarkably, the animal ...

Preserved for millennia in an ice block, the cub belonged to the species Homotherium latidens, often referred to as a saber-toothed tiger. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the animal lived ...

The character Diego, a saber-toothed tiger, has very similar traits to the 35,000-year-old cub. This marks the first time remains of this kind have been studied.

Scientists are rejoicing over the recent discovery of the first mummified saber-tooth cub in the history of paleontology. A team of paleontologists discovered a frozen mummy cub in northeast Russia in ...