Sometime during the early to late Eocene, there was a massive predator unlike anything on Earth today. If you were roaming ...

It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice ...

Despite their fictional significance, dire wolves were real-world predators that lurked across North America with mastodons and saber tooth tigers during the Ice Age. They hunted horses ...

Saber-toothed predators—best known from the infamous Smilodon—evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A study titled "Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of ...

Sabre teeth were last seen in Smilodon, often called sabre-toothed tigers, which existed until about 10,000 years ago. To investigate why these teeth kept re-evolving, Tahlia Pollock at the ...

The Siberian ice holds unsuspected secrets. In 2020, an exceptional discovery was made near the Badyarikha River: that of a baby saber-toothed tiger, frozen in time for nearly 36,000 years. A true ...

No doubt about it: saber-toothed tigers are awesome. Or at least they were. These iconic creatures lived on this planet as far back as 42 million years ago and ate mammoths, elephants, and even ...

That’s one old kitty. Researchers have discovered the remains of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed tiger cub nearly perfectly preserved in Siberian permafrost, according to reports. The remains ...

they are often referred to as sabre-toothed tigers. Small ears and a thick neck The kitten's head and even individual whiskers, the front legs with clawed paws and the animal's front body have ...

A frozen mummified carcass of a sabre-tooth tiger kitten was found in the Sakha Republic of Russia in 2020. Nature.com Radiocarbon dating puts the cub, of the Homotherium latidens species ...

An image of the saber-tooth cat cub. Image: Lopatin et al., Scientific Reports 2024 Six years ago, scientists discovered a remarkably preserved cave lion cub in Siberia’s permafrost. Despite ...

A new study in Current Biology fills in some evolutionary gaps. Scanning Saber-Toothed Tiger Skulls As part of her doctoral research at the University of Liège, Narimane Chatar and her team collected ...