Preserved for millennia in an ice block, the cub belonged to the species Homotherium latidens, often referred to as a saber-toothed tiger. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the animal lived ...

The character Diego, a saber-toothed tiger, has very similar traits to the 35,000-year-old cub. This marks the first time remains of this kind have been studied. “For the first time in the ...