Buried in the permafrost was the 37,000-year-old mummified body of a baby sabre-toothed tiger. The kitten was found frozen in a block of ice in Yakutia, and was astonishingly perfectly preserved.

An curved arrow pointing right. Paleontologists have discovered the first saber-toothed tiger paw prints. The fossilized prints date back 50,000 years and were discovered in Argentina. Produced by ...

Well, this is a story of a celebrity animal. Researchers are asking, whatever happened to the saber-toothed tiger? Kids learn in school about those tigers with canine teeth - the long, pointy ones ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such teeth have independently evolved in different groups of mammals at least five times, and fossils of sabre-tooth predators have been found in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Sabre-toothed predators through time Sabre-toothed predators once roamed ecosystems around the globe. Their fossils have been found in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The feature that ...

Sabre-toothed predators -- best know from the infamous Smilodon -- evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' and ...

Saber teeth — the large canines — are pretty fearsome. These fangs have evolved at least five times in predators that are now extinct, but there's been something of a mystery as to why.