Saber-toothed cats and dire wolves, two predators that roamed the Earth during the last Ice Age, may have had a high rate of a developmental bone disease, according to a new study of their remains.

Researchers found a single saber-toothed cat bone that belonged to an animal that weighed up to 900 pounds. The new species might have hunted down 6,000-pound animals. It may have been the ancestor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not every day you dig up the fossilized remains of an apex predator. Unless your name is Eddie Templeton, who recently ...

Recent work has suggested that saber tooth tigers aren't the terrifying predators they seem to have been; they may have tended more toward acting like cubs than warriors. Reporting in iScience, ...

Saber-tooth tigers are right up alongside woolly mammoths as one of the Ice Age's most popular megafauna. With butcher knife-like teeth hanging from their jaws ready to tear apart their prey, these ...

To some people it may have been just a small bone; a darkened and fossilized relic laying in a creek bed since the end of the last ice age. But thousands of years ago it was a part of one of the most ...

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 during the real Ice Age. Researchers at ...

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman react to Scott Boras’ latest take on Detroit Tigers starting pitcher Tarik Skubal. Hear the full conversation on the ...

Along with the mammoth and the dire wolf, the sabre-tooth tiger was a casualty of the Quaternary Extinction, a die-off that happened between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago that seems to have affected big ...

GENEVA — A rare skeleton of a saber-toothed tiger which roamed the northern United States some 37 million years ago is estimated to fetch $65,000 to $90,000 next week, auction house Piguet said on ...