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.

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 ...

It’s not as if Smilodon sprung from the ground fully-formed and started tearing after the nearest baby mammoth. If there were sabercats, there must have been saberkittens.

The connection offers more evidence that Smilodon was a social cat, an idea proposed based on the sheer number of Smilodon bones found at La Brea.

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Was Smilodon a prehistoric can-opener? 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.

Smilodon's sabre teeth Date: December 8, 2022 Source: University of Liege Summary: Researchers have tested the biting efficiency of Smilodon, an extinct species of carnivore close to the extant ...

(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 ...

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Fossils from a Texas site suggest that the predatory felines not only snatched mammoths from their herds, but dragged the remains back to their cave.

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 ...