This wasn’t always a mystery. If you had the misfortune of being a human being more than 10,000 years ago, there’s a decent chance you were intimately aware of what a saber-tooth cat sounded like.

If you’ve been to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, you’ve probably heard the mighty roar of its saber-toothed cat. It’s worked the same way for more than four decades: Grab some spare change, ...

When a sabertooth tiger called out, what noise did it make – a mighty roar or a throaty purr? A new study from North Carolina State University examined the data behind the arguments for each ...