Saber-tooth tigers are right up alongside woolly mammoths as one of the Ice Age's most popular megafauna. With butcher knife-like teeth hanging from their jaws ready to tear apart their prey, these ...

Schematic of felid hyoid anatomy in situ in (a) Panthera tigris and (b) Caracal caracal. Stylohyoid is orange, epihyoid (* = ligamentous in Panthera) is purple, ceratohyoid is yellow, basihyoid is red ...

When a sabertooth tiger called out, what noise did it make -- a mighty roar or a throaty purr? A new study examined the data behind the arguments for each vocalization and found that the answer was ...

As recently as 12,000 years ago, ancient humans shared the Earth with a monster unlike anything we know today — and it was even bigger and more terrifying than we first thought. The saber-tooth tiger ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cringe. That's what most people do when they look at fossils of the impressive, eight-inch-long canines of the now extinct sabertooth tiger, Smilodon fatalis. But Frank Mendel, a ...