Cringe. That's what most people do when they look at fossils of the impressive, eight-inch-long canines of the now extinct sabertooth tiger, Smilodon fatalis. But Frank Mendel, a University at ...

Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger. Smilodon was a fearsome Ice Age cat, the size of a modern-day tiger, that had a pair of fangs nearly 18 centimeters long. But it ...

Smilodon is a genus of sabre-toothed cat that lived some 2.5–0.01 million years ago in the forest and bush of the Americas. It is popularly known as the sabre-toothed tiger, although it is not closely ...

Replicas of the heads of saber-toothed tiger, or Smilodon, are presented during the exhibition "Great Hunter of the Pampas" in Argentina's Bernardino Rivadavia Museum of Natural Sciences, in Buenos ...

Saber-tooth tigers are right up alongside woolly mammoths as one of the Ice Age's most popular megafauna. With butcher knife-like teeth hanging from their jaws ready to tear apart their prey, these ...

In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome ...

It suggests that the prehistoric predators might have been able to feed on even the most giant prey of the Pleistocene era. By Joshua Sokol When the curator mentioned a huge saber-toothed tiger skull ...

An animal of such habits [as Smilodon] might fulfill the legendary requirements of the ‘King of Beasts’ more nearly than does the lion. It would be bold and fearless of the most powerful, and it might ...

The saber-toothed cat just lost some of its swagger. Long considered a most fearsome predator among Ice Age giants, at least one species of saber-tooth bit more like a "pussycat," new research ...

We now know how good the sense of smell was in giant sloths, sabre-toothed tigers and other long-lost species.

The new species, named Eusmilus adelos, had sharper teeth and was much larger than other saber-toothed animals, but they all lived side-by-side about 33 million years ago. E. adelos is part of the ...