Scientists have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat species known as Homotherium latidens, also called the scimitar-toothed cat. The resulting DNA analysis suggests these ...

A giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum, may have looked like this before it went extinct. Robert Bruce Horsfall/public domain The Americas are full of beautiful and diverse creatures, but many ...

A bone from a long dead scimitar cat — a type of sabre tooth cat — found in the Klondike almost a decade ago is giving researchers a wealth of information about the cats and may open the door to much ...

""It's South America's most important discovery in 60 years,"" Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigation paleontologist Ascanio Rincon told AFP on Monday. He said fossils of six scimitar cats, ...

A couple of rare fossils found in Yukon have scientists sinking their teeth into the mysterious history of a once-formidable predator — the scimitar cat. And according to new research published in the ...

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 ...

Good daytime vision, enhanced cardiovascular and respiratory systems and strong bones indicate the scimitar-toothed cat was adept at driving its prey to exhaustion before making the kill. Illustration ...

An ancient tar pit exposed when Venezuelan oil workers laid a pipeline has yielded a rich trove of fossils, including a type of saber-toothed cat that paleontologists had never found before in South ...

DeKalb, Ill. -- It's safe to say Northern Illinois University Biological Sciences Professor Virginia Naples has a fascination with cats. She keeps two tabbies at her Hampshire, Ill. home. She also has ...

How does one go about selling a sabercat skeleton? This was the question the Argentinean naturalist Francisco Javier Muñiz asked Charles Darwin in a letter sent on August 30, 1846. Muñiz wasn’t ...

CARACAS - Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat -- of the saber-toothed cat genus -- in South America, during oil prospecting activities southeast of Caracas, ...