Regular tigers are intimidating enough as it is, but the fact that there was once something called the saber-toothed tiger walking around is pure nightmare fuel.

Picture the frozen winds of the Ice Age tearing across vast, wild plains. Imagine two giants—one with fangs like daggers, the ...

Woodcarver Thom Gleich from Davenport uses a chain saw to carve a saber-tooth tiger into the trunk of a black oak Tuesday at Lincoln Park in DeWitt. The tiger is the school's mascot and was ...

The Saber-Tooth Curriculum, a satire on educators, consists of a series of lectures on the history of paleolithic education, delivered by a fictitious Professor J. Abner Peddiwell while he drinks ...

Researchers are asking, whatever happened to the saber-toothed tiger? Kids learn in school about those tigers with canine teeth - the long, pointy ones - which make them look pretty fearsome.

The curved teeth of the saber-tooth tiger represents an evolutionary paradox. Gaining its trademark curved fangs made it functionally optimal for piercing the flesh of its prey. But that level of ...

Life Why sabre-toothed animals evolved again and again Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why they evolved in different groups of mammals at least five ...

Sabre-toothed predators – best know from the infamous Smilodon – evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study, published today in Current Biology reveals why: these teeth ...

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills a longstanding gap in the fossil record.

A mummy with curved, sharp claws, pads on its paws, well-preserved skin and thick fur around an inch long has been uncovered in the Siberian permafrost. The saber-toothed cat cub is the first of ...

The saber-toothed tiger, or Homotherium latidens, was a large prehistoric feline that disappeared about 10,000 years ago. It belonged to a group of carnivorous species renowned for their long sharp ...