Saber-toothed cats may have been limping toward extinction long before they vanished. A new study of more than 3,700 vertebrae from Smilodon fatalis found at Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits documents ...

Clues to saber-toothed cats’ demise are emerging from fossils entombed in California’s sticky La Brea Tar Pits. Fossils of the extinct predators preserved in tar reveal a diversity of spinal maladies.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found a mummified saber-toothed cat in Russian permafrost. Despite being at least 35,000 years old, the cub retained ...

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The fossilized spines of saber-toothed cats in the La Brea Tar Pits reveal evidence of an unexpectedly high prevalence of rare spinal nerve tumors, suggesting that the species became inbred just ...

Long before humans became dominant predators, sabre-toothed cats hunted across Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas, using ...

Thousands of years ago, sticky tar pits in modern-day Los Angeles, California, became the graveyard for prehistoric felines struggling with deformities and disease. Soon after, the creatures would ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Ice Age’s most famous predator, Smilodon, killed with ...

The replica saber-toothed cat, California's state fossil, at the Courthouse Museum in Lakeport, Calif. Photo by Kathleen Scavone. LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – When we hear of a bear or mountain lion sighting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendering of what the early saber-toothed cat, 'Adelphailurus kansensis,' might have looked like in its heyday 5 ...