Wikimedia CommonsIllustration of Smilodon populator, one of the biggest cats ever known, by Charles R. Knight. During the Pleistocene era some 11,700 years ago, South America was a hotbed of giant ...

When scientists brushed aside the dusty soil in 2022 to reveal a saber-toothed skull, they had no idea it would upend ...

In a new study published in the journal Comptes Rendus Palevol, the researchers describe fossil evidence that includes a saber-toothed cat skull complete with a massive hole right in the forehead ...

The average Smilodon populator skull is 35 centimeters long, explains Manzuetti. But the skull he and his colleagues found measured close to 40 centimeters in total length, ...

Smilodon's sabre teeth Date: December 8, 2022 Source: University of Liege Summary: Researchers have tested the biting efficiency of Smilodon, an extinct species of carnivore close to the extant ...

Saber teeth in predators evolved many times. Did it lead to their extinction? A new analysis suggests saber teeth were highly specialized for puncturing prey, ultimately at the cost of durability.

An unusal animal with canines similar to those of a saber-toothed cat and the wide-set eyes of a cow lived in South America about 5 million years ago. Now, researchers have studied fossils of the ...

Smilodon's sabre teeth A study carried out by researchers of the Univeristy of Liège (BE) provides a better understanding of the underlying mechanisms of sabre-toothed carnivore bites ...