When craftsman Ken Walker decided to reconstruct an Irish elk for the “recreations” category of the 2005 World Taxidermy Championships, he did not rely on bones alone. Skeletons of the extinct ...

A team led by the Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences has identified the frozen saber-toothed cat as belonging to Homotherium latidens. This makes it only the ...

A comparison of three-week-old heads of Homotherium top, and a present-day lion. Credit…A.V. Lopatin et al., Scientific Reports 2024© Daily Galaxy ...

Homotherium may have lived and hunted in groups The first in-depth study of sabre-toothed cat DNA reveals genetic clues that some of them were swift predators that lived in social groups. Ross ...

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AUSTIN, Texas — For nearly two million years, a large cat with sharp front teeth lived in modern day North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Known as the Homotherium, this creature inhabited ...

The researchers identified the saber-tooth cat as a Homotherium latidens specimen. Homotherium, also known as the scimitar-tooth cat, was a saber-tooth predator built for long-distance running.

Scientists long believed that the saber-toothed cat—or Homotherium, if you will—went extinct in Europe approximately 300,000 years ago. But a new study suggests the species may have been ...

A photo, left, and skeleton C.T. scan of the frozen mummy of Homotherium latidens, a 37,000-year-old lion-sized saber toothed cat found in eastern Siberia. A.V. Lopatin et al., Scientific Reports 2024 ...

Even in terms of body shape, Homotherium latidens would have been a comparatively gracile animal, with a less beefy build than that of a lion and a spine which sloped slightly downwards.