Scientists have mapped the entire nuclear genome of a saber-toothed cat species known as Homotherium latidens, also called the scimitar-toothed cat. The resulting DNA analysis suggests these ...

A bone from a long dead scimitar cat — a type of sabre tooth cat — found in the Klondike almost a decade ago is giving researchers a wealth of information about the cats and may open the door to much ...

A giant ground sloth, Megatherium americanum, may have looked like this before it went extinct. Robert Bruce Horsfall/public domain The Americas are full of beautiful and diverse creatures, but many ...

A couple of rare fossils found in Yukon have scientists sinking their teeth into the mysterious history of a once-formidable predator — the scimitar cat. And according to new research published in the ...

CARACAS - Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat -- of the saber-toothed cat genus -- in South America, during oil prospecting activities southeast of Caracas, ...

The first in-depth study of sabre-toothed cat DNA reveals genetic clues that some of them were swift predators that lived in social groups. Ross Barnett at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and ...