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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Venezuela has found the first fossils of an extinct scimitar cat -- of the saber-toothed cat genus -- in South America, during oil ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...