In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, ...

A new type of saber-toothed cat has just been revealed: the "cookie-cutter cat," whose name comes from how it chomped large, clean chunks of flesh from its prey. Saber-toothed cats once roamed the ...

A clip from the upcoming series "Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age" shows how iconic ice age creatures adapted to their changing environment as temperatures rose and ice sheets started to melt. When you ...

For nearly 35,000 years, the remains of a long-extinct saber-toothed cub lay preserved in permafrost in the Indigirka River basin of Yakutia, Russia. In 2020, a team of Russian scientists stumbled ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. But today’s researchers can only hope to find fossils that will shed more light on the existence of these ...