Now a winner of three of his six starts, Sabercat is out of the unraced Forty Niner mare Miner’s Blessing. She is dam of seven winners from seven starters, the best of her previous foals being ...

The largest of these Ice Age cats sported canines that were 11 inches long, with fine serrations giving the fangs even more of ... that the palate of the great sabercat suggested a propensity ...

And even among true felids, there were sabercat imitators. Dinofelis, often called a “false sabertooth”, was a wide-ranging cat that also convergently developed very long fangs during its span ...

Smilodon was the ultimate sabercat. About the size of a tiger, but with burlier arms and elongated fangs that have made the genus famous, the Ice Age carnivore stalked camels, bison, and other ...

While the carnivore broadly resembled other felids – a cat is a cat is a cat – the predator’s fangs have confounded paleontologists for over a century. The sabercat’s impressive canines ...

Time and again, mammals with long, piercing fangs have evolved and are often epitomized by burly, impressive predators like the sabercat Smilodon. But now paleontologists have uncovered the oldest ...