Scimitar-toothed cats also had good daytime vision, which means they were a diurnal species that likely hunted during daylight hours. They had special genetic adaptations for strong bones and ...

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 ...

What researchers do know is that scimitar cats were the stuff of nightmares — built to kill, with long front limbs and short back limbs. "Good for pouncing," Zazula said.

When modern humans first wandered into Europe some 50,000 years ago, this snaggle-toothed cat was probably there to greet them.. Painstaking genetic analysis of a jawbone dredged up from the ...

12,000 years ago, giant megafauna with exotic names like the scimitar cat, dire wolf, and columbian mammoth lumbered across the North American continent.

The ancient scimitar cats might have brought mammoth take-out back to their secluded underground den to dine in peace. That might seem strange for a svelte cat with the proportions of a runner, ...

4 Extinct Animals That Roamed America, From Giant Sloths To Scimitar Cats. By Elana Glowatz Published 07/02/17 AT 10:29 AM EDT. Share on Facebook ...

The scimitar-toothed cat is a part of the saber-toothed family. The mummified cub features an unusually-shaped muzzle, large mouth, small ears, "massive neck," elongated forelimbs and dark coat ...

BILLINGS – Roughly 13,000 years ago, the burly scimitar cat with its hyena-like build and large canine teeth specialized in killing large mammals in cold climates, including young mammoths in ...

The mother's diet was similar to that of a Scimitar Cat, a relative of saber-tooth cats, also a mammoth eater. One-third of ...

The boy was probably still breast-feeding, and the results reveal that the diet of his mother was "closest to that of [the now-extinct] scimitar cat, a mammoth specialist," the researchers wrote ...

The largest weigh more than 600 pounds, and they are one of few cat species comfortable in the snow. Kunali and his sibling Korol both came to the Alaska Zoo from a zoo in Syracuse, New York, in 2008.