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 ...

Studying the sounds produced by ancient creatures like sabertooth has shed light on vocalizations in these extinct species. Grasping this auditory aspect also holds a pivotal role in reconstructing ...

In the animated movie “Ice Age,” there was a scary, saber-tooth tiger named Diego — which had real-life counterparts that lived in Iowa some 13,000 years ago during the real Ice Age. Researchers at ...

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 UB anatomist, sees ...

DNA taken from the teeth of ancient sabertooth cats show they were cousins of modern cats but not direct ancestors, scientists say. And they also shot down a theory that cheetahs may have originally ...