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 likely ...

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.

Lions are the king of the plains. Tigers rule the jungle. But face to face, which would win? Well, let’s talk size first. Tigers are heavier, weighing up to 800 pounds to the lion’s 550. But the two ...

It is difficult to figure out the behaviors of an animal that lived thousands—or millions—of years ago when all you have are its fossilized bones, even when there are plenty of them, as there are for ...

Saber-toothed cats may be best known for their supersized canines, but they also had exceptionally strong forelimbs for pinning prey before delivering the fatal bite, says a new study. Durham, NC -- ...