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.

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 ...

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 ...

Learn about a surprise find of an early saber-toothed cat skull in a museum drawer, revealing how the teeth of ancient cats evolved. Fossils of a saber-toothed cat that roamed North America more than ...

LOS ANGELES -- Along with a state bird, butterfly, fish and tree, California boasts its own fossil, Smilodon californicus, or Californian saber-tooth cat. Problem is, there was no such species. Rather ...

The investigative work inherent to paleontology is unforgiving. Any paleontologist can tell you: discovery requires extrapolating big ideas from fragmentary bones, reconstructing the past with little ...