When craftsman Ken Walker decided to reconstruct an Irish elk for the “recreations” category of the 2005 World Taxidermy Championships, he did not rely on bones alone. Skeletons of the extinct ...

Scientists long believed that the saber-toothed cat—or Homotherium, if you will—went extinct in Europe approximately 300,000 years ago. But a new study suggests the species may have been around ...

AUSTIN, Texas — For nearly two million years, a large cat with sharp front teeth lived in modern day North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Known as the Homotherium, this creature inhabited Texas ...

In a study published on Thursday, scientists shared their findings on a frozen, mummified sabre-toothed cub discovered in one of the coldest places on the planet. A member of the species Homotherium ...

An excavation team found the remains of a saber-toothed cat at the archeological site in Schöningen. An examination of the skull fragments revealed the animal to be a representative of the European ...

Sabertoothed cats have a fearsome reputation. In museum halls and in b-movies, the fanged cats are often shown driving their impressive canines into hapless sloths and mammoths as part of a messy, ...

[Author's Note: This week I am driving west with my wife and our three cats to our new apartment in Salt Lake City, Utah. Packing prevented me from writing up anything new, so I'm featuring a few ...