When a Mississippi Delta couple went to spend time on the Mississippi River recently, they expected to find fossils from long-extinct animals. After all, they find them all the time. However, what ...

For nearly 35,000 years, the remains of a long-extinct saber-toothed cub lay preserved in permafrost in the Indigirka River basin of Yakutia, Russia. In 2020, a team of Russian scientists stumbled ...

In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed light on how interactions between predators and prey influenced the ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber-toothed cat that inhabited North America more than 5 million years ago.