Like the lion which today lives in the African savannah, the saber-tooth "tiger," Smilodon populator, inhabited the open, dry country found in South America during the ice age, according to new ...

A saber-toothed tiger (Smilodon populator) that lived 100,000 years ago likely spent its last days limping across the northern plains of present-day Argentina. This is the conclusion of paleontologist ...

TUBINGEN, Germany, March 21 (UPI) --Until now, researchers believed Smilodon populator-- popularly known as the saber-toothed tiger or saber-toothed cat -- looked and acted like a forest-dwelling cat, ...

Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Smilodon : a short history of becoming the iconic sabertooth / H. Gregory McDonald -- 2. The phylogenetic context of Smilodon / Lars Werdelin and Therese Flink -- 3.

THE BITE of a sabre-toothed tiger was much more powerful than researchers previously thought. New evidence suggests that the canine teeth of the big cat were actually strong enough to puncture the ...

Smilodon populator, the greatest sabre-tooth cat of them all, was reconstructed by Nigel Booth. Like Smilodon, every other star of the series had to be lovingly crafted as a scale model first before ...

Smilodon is a genus of sabre-toothed cat that lived some 2.5–0.01 million years ago in the forest and bush of the Americas. It is popularly known as the sabre-toothed tiger, although it is not closely ...