Scientists knew that saber-toothed tigers were big — but this skull changes everything. "To picture a normal individual, ...

The adolescent saber-toothed cat on a summertime hunt realized too late that she had made a terrible miscalculation. Already the size of a modern-day tiger, with huge canine teeth, she had crept ...

The first, and the most long-lived of the bunch, was the idea that the teeth of Smilodon had been produced by an unstoppable, internal evolutionary trend which caused them to overdevelop.

Ironically, Smilodon was recently found to have had a relatively weak bite. However, Smilodon lived solely in the Americas, while the movie "10,000 BC" apparently takes place in the Old World.

An apparent family of sabre-toothed cats with an unusual genetic quirk is providing new hints about how the predators lived tens of ... by their scientific name Smilodon fatalis, ranged through ...

Smilodon, had a New World origin, and it and its ancestors lived in the southeastern U.S. for at least 5 million years before their extinction about 11,000 years ago," Hulbert said in a statement.

At least two species of sabertooths were more muscle than bite, subduing their prey with powerful necks and forelimbs, a new study says. Ongoing research has suggested not. For instance, a 2007 ...

The findings all stem from the discovery of a new Smilodon populator skull, already the largest known member of the saber-tooth family, in Uruguay. INVERSE IS COUNTING DOWN THE 20 STORIES THAT ...

The first, and the most long-lived of the bunch, was the idea that the teeth of Smilodon had been produced by an unstoppable, internal evolutionary trend which caused them to overdevelop.

Here's a look at the movie's beasts from a scientific perspective. However, Smilodon lived solely in the Americas, while the movie "10,000 BC" apparently takes place in the Old World. Still ...