Paleontologists discovered two new species of saber-toothed cats that roamed South Africa more than 5 million years ago. Skull and teeth remains from two unknown species of ancient predators, plus ...

The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including short-faced bears, ...

A recent visit to a fossil collection in a South African quarry discovered two new species of sabertooth cats. Africa's sabertooth collection now includes 5.2 million-year-old feline fossils. Among ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A fossilized skull found on the coast of Texas is expanding on the understanding of where the saber-toothed cat roamed tens of thousands of years ago, according to researchers at the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including ...

This fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of ...

Carnivore fossils are extremely rare, though, in comparison to those of their prey. Prey are always more abundant than predators in a healthy ecosystem. So the probability of burial, storage and ...

When a Mississippi Delta couple went to spend time on the Mississippi River recently, they expected to find fossils from long-extinct animals. After all, they find them all the time. However, what ...

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A nondescript mass of bone and teeth helped scientists at The University of Texas at Austin discover the geographic footprint of a large cat that roamed the Earth tens of thousands of years ago. The ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Researchers say a pair of fossils unearthed in the hills north of Las Vegas belonged to a saber-toothed cat. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports ...