Photo: "Social" Sabertooths Hunted in Packs, Study Says



Unlike most of their fellow felines, saber-toothed cats were social creatures, living and hunting in formidable packs (seen above in an illustration), according to an October 2008 study.

Illustration courtesy Mauricio Antón/Zoological Society of London


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