Sabre-toothed cats (Smilodon) fighting Colombian mammoths (Image: Mauricio Anton) It's the big fight often depicted in paintings of prehistoric creatures: mammoth versus sabre-toothed cat.

It’s not as if Smilodon sprung from the ground fully-formed and started tearing after the nearest baby mammoth. Smilodon fatalis – one of the last great sabercats – was a ferocious carnivore.

The Softer Side of Sabercats The iconic fanged predators may have raised their young for years—dragging baby mastodon bones home for them and slowly teaching them how to hunt ...

The skull belonged to Smilodon populator. Extinct for about 10,000 years, the heavily muscled species once Hulk-smashed its way through South American fauna in the Pleistocene. To picture a normal ...

Aside from the woolly mammoth, no Pleistocene creature is more iconic than Smilodon.The vanished sabercat is a symbol of North America’s recently lost megafauna, but it’s also an Ice Age mystery.

A Smilodon fends off vultures at what would later be called the Rancho La Brea tar pits, situated in Los Angeles, California. Painting by Charles R. Knight. The feeding habits of saber-toothed ...

(Pictured: Smilodon Fatalis Sergiodlarosa) via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY SA-3.0. When people mention saber-toothed cats, they’re usually talking about one very specific creature: Smilodon ...

When most people think of saber-tooth cats, they think of North America’s Smilodon. But they prowled the same terrain as another ferocious but less well-known feline, Homotherium serum, also ...

A pack of saber-tooth cats (Smilodon) fight with adult Colombian mammoths over a juvenile mammoth they've felled. A new analysis by a team of biologists concludes that 'hypercarnivores' such as ...

On a superficial level, the predatory habits of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon would not seem to be especially mysterious. Traditionally – and incorrectly – restored as a lion with extra-long ...