The East Nishnabota River carves through southwestern Iowa, flowing over sands and gravels dating back to the last ice age. In 2017, something emerged from the riverbanks that would change Iowa’s ...

The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including short-faced bears, ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The discovery of a new species of extinct saber-tooth is helping paleontologists fill in the gaps and providing new details about an ancient animal that has long-captured the ...

Last spring, a small lower jawbone in the vast fossil collection of the San Diego Natural History Museum was identified as that of a newly discovered saber-toothed catlike predator that roamed the ...

The newly discovered fossils, dating back to roughly 5 million years ago, could have implications for human bipedalism, researchers say. Reading time 3 minutes Paleontologists recently revisited a ...

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Carnivore fossils are extremely rare, though, in comparison to those of their prey. Prey are always more abundant than predators in a healthy ecosystem. So the probability of burial, storage and ...