Fossil skull and lower jaws of a sabre-toothed cat, Smilodon fatalis, from the La Brea tar pits of California, USA. Image by Simon Powell, School of Earth Sciences ...

Through using a technique called geometric morphometrics to compare the cat’s skull shape to that of other felids, however, Geraads found that Acinonyx pardinensis was not simply a big version ...

The S. fatalis skull was found at the La Brea Tar Pits and is about 12 to 15 thousand years old, Van Valkenburgh said. The H. serum cat skull was found in a cave in Texas and is about 20,000 years ...

Saber-toothed cats were already one of the more intimidating of all ancient creatures, but knowing that they could probably put a hole right in your skull with a single chomp just adds to their ...

The first documented evidence that a particular species of saber-toothed cats used to live in what's now Iowa might help humanity save large mammals from a similar kind of extinction. A skull ...

In total, 431 skulls were digitized, representing 152 dog breeds, 9 cat breeds and 12 of their wild relatives, including wolves, jackals, coyotes, a leopard and a serval.

INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY. WELL, SCIENTISTS FOUND A SABER TOOTHED CAT SKULL IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE STATE. THEY SAY IT’S THE FIRST EVIDENCE THAT THE PREDATOR ONCE LIVED IN IOWA. KETV NEWSWATCH 7 ...

Modern cats diverged in skull shape from their sabre-toothed ancestors early in their evolutionary history and then followed separate evolutionary trajectories, according to new research.