This large animal, which could grow up to 6 feet tall, lived in the Australian continent during the Pleistocene epoch. The saber-toothed tiger, which is also known as the smilodon, is an extinct ...

Often called the saber-toothed tiger, the smilodon wasn't closely related to the modern tiger. It lived around 2.5 million to 10,000 years ago, smilodon used its oversized, dagger-like canines to ...

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 ...

These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, most notably in the saber-tooth cat Smilodon, who sported serrated sabers ...