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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 ...

Saber-toothed cats may sometimes have wielded their formidable canine teeth as deadly weapons to puncture the skulls of rival cats. “Smilodon canines were strong enough to penetrate bone and were ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

An analysis of two punctured saber-toothed cat skulls suggests these extinct creatures engaged in intra-species combat. It’s further evidence that the exaggerated fangs of saber-toothed cats were ...

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.

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 ...