Initial analysis of the Wyoming specimen indicates it belongs to Smilodon fatalis, one of three recognized species of sabertooth cats that roamed North America. Distinguished from its larger relative ...

Saber-tooth cats, particularly the well-known Smilodon fatalis, were apex predators that dominated landscapes across the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch, between 2.5 million and 10,000 years ago ...

You can look at a 3D model of one of these predators - Smilodon fatalis - below. This model has been digitised from a cast specimen from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

An article about the Making of Walking with Beasts. Smilodon populator, the greatest sabre-tooth cat of them all, was reconstructed by Nigel Booth.Like Smilodon, every other star of the series had ...

A model of the Smilodon fatalis skeleton (right) on display as part of a special exhibition in Schöningen, Germany, on April 12, 2017 Hauke-Christian Dittrich / picture alliance via Getty Images ...

The fearsome, saber-like teeth of Smilodon fatalis — California's state fossil — are familiar to anyone who has ever visited Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits, a sticky trap from which more than 2,000 ...

Smilodon fatalis lived in the Americas during the Pleistocene epoch, from about 2.5 million to about 10,000 years ago, and is known for its long, curved canine teeth, which could grow up to 7 ...

Saber-toothed tigers, or smilodon fatalis, are a species of large cat that weighed somewhere between 350 and 620 pounds, making the extinct creature larger than both the modern African lion, the ...

Hyoid bones are rare in the fossil record, but we know that Smilodon fatalis (the saber-tooth tiger) had seven hyoid bones, the same as the modern roaring cats. But that isn’t the whole story.

Sabertooth tigers may have been fearsome hunters, but they probably sounded more like a harmless house cat. A new study investigating the extinct big cat Smilodon fatalis suggests it is more ...

In this study, Schmökel and colleagues identify signs of this disease in fossil limb bones of Ice Age saber-tooth cats (Smilodon fatalis) and dire wolves (Aenocyon dirus) from around 55,000 to ...