This wasn’t always a mystery. If you had the misfortune of being a human being more than 10,000 years ago, there’s a decent chance you were intimately aware of what a saber-tooth cat sounded like.

Saber-toothed tigers may have had two sets of their famous fangs for a period of their adolescence, fossil evidence reveals. One species of these ancient and extinct cats, famed for their large and ...

A mechanical analysis of the distinctive canines of California's saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth that preceded each saber stayed in place for years to stabilize the ...

Discovered several years ago, this remarkably preserved saber-tooth cub is offering a rare glimpse into its species and life as it existed over 30,000 years ago. Reading time 3 minutes Six years ago, ...

In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, ...

Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence of bone disease in their joints, according to new research. Ice Age saber-tooth cats and dire wolves experienced a high incidence ...

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