The first documented evidence that a particular species of saber-toothed cats used to live in what's now Iowa might help humanity save large mammals from a similar kind of extinction. A skull found in ...
In a new study published in the online-open access journal PLoS ONE, Per Christiansen at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reports the finding that the evolution of skull and mandible ...
The enormous canine teeth that make extinct saber-toothed animals so frightening weren’t very practical. Consider the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis. This animal was smaller than a lion but nearly ...
Researchers digitised the skulls of 431 dogs, cats and wild relatives. The database can be used for educational and research purposes. The ELTE Eötvös Loránd University is home to the skulls of more ...