Like the lion which today lives in the African savannah, the saber-tooth "tiger," Smilodon populator, inhabited the open, dry country found in South America during the ice age, according to new ...

THE BITE of a sabre-toothed tiger was much more powerful than researchers previously thought. New evidence suggests that the canine teeth of the big cat were actually strong enough to puncture the ...

A saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon populator) that lived 100,000 years ago likely spent its last days limping across the northern plains of present-day Argentina. This is the conclusion of paleontologist ...

New evidence shows that saber-toothed cats may have been much more fierce than we originally thought. The cats belonging to Smilodon populator species—who likely used their elongated canines to tear ...

Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Smilodon : a short history of becoming the iconic sabertooth / H. Gregory McDonald -- 2. The phylogenetic context of Smilodon / Lars Werdelin and Therese Flink -- 3.

TUBINGEN, Germany, March 21 (UPI) --Until now, researchers believed Smilodon populator-- popularly known as the saber-toothed tiger or saber-toothed cat -- looked and acted like a forest-dwelling cat, ...

If you were transported back in time some 100,000 years there's a good chance you'd run into any number of creatures that could rapidly end your life. One of those species was the saber-toothed cat, ...

Smilodon populator, the greatest sabre-tooth cat of them all, was reconstructed by Nigel Booth. Like Smilodon, every other star of the series had to be lovingly crafted as a scale model first before ...

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 ...