A Smilodon fends off vultures at what would later be called the Rancho La Brea tar pits, situated in Los Angeles, California. Painting by Charles R. Knight. The feeding habits of saber-toothed ...

Perhaps strangely, dinosaurs did not evolve any saber-toothed species. Teenage tyrannosaurs sometimes had a fangy look to them, but they never quite resembled the likes of Smilodon. Mammals are ...

An animal of such habits [as Smilodon] might fulfill the legendary requirements of the 'King of Beasts' more nearly than does the lion. It would be bold and fearless of the most powerful ...

The ferocious Smilodon of the Ice Age is among the most ... Beasts were getting bigger in a world where the only remaining dinosaurs were birds, and mammals evolved into all sorts of shapes ...

The massive dinosaur went extinct over 65 million years ago. The Smilodon, also known as the Saber-toothed tiger, was a large predatory cat that roamed North and South America during the ...

Commonly called a tiger, the saber-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus ... The competition for the world's largest dinosaur isn't clear-cut, but the best guess is Argentinosaurus, discovered ...

The study, written by paleontologist Ariel Méndez, compares the neck vertebrae of Carnotaurus with the same bones in the dinosaur’s ... the sabercat Smilodon and the modern Komodo dragon ...

Oregon was under water during the age of dinosaurs, whereas Colorado was the ... such as crab-like trilobites and the extinct genus Smilodon (or what most of us call saber-toothed cats).