An illustration of a sabertooth tiger. The predators went extinct between about 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. Adam Hartstone-Rose ...

Sabertooth tigers definitely weren’t pet cats – but they may have purred like one Katherine Fidler Published August 22, 2023 1:39pm Updated August 22, 2023 2:30pm ...

Sabertooth skull. (ISU photo) 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 ...

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 ...

Hyoid bones are rare in the fossil record, but we know that Smilodon fatalis (the saber-tooth tiger) had seven hyoid bones, the same as the modern roaring cats. But that isn’t the whole story.

When a sabertooth tiger called out, what noise did it make – a mighty roar or a throaty purr? A new study from North Carolina State University examined the data behind the arguments for each ...