Sabertooth skull. (ISU photo) In the animated movie “Ice Age,” there was a scary, saber-tooth tiger named Diego — which had real-life counterparts that lived in Iowa some 13,000 years ago ...

For as long as history has been recorded, the enigma of the mighty sabertooth tiger has fascinated us. A predominant question: what sound did this majestic creature make? Was it a powerful roar ...

well, scientists found a saber toothed cat skull in the southwest part of the state. they say it’s the first evidence that the predator once lived in iowa.

Scientists knew that saber-toothed tigers were big — but this skull changes everything. "To picture a normal individual, start with an African lion. Then double its size and add giant fangs.

An illustration of a sabertooth tiger. The predators went extinct between about 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. Adam Hartstone-Rose ...

Saber-toothed tigers may have had two sets of their famous fangs for a period of their adolescence, fossil evidence reveals. One species of these ancient and extinct cats, famed for their large ...