A new analysis suggests saber teeth were highly specialized for puncturing prey, ultimately at the cost of durability.

An curved arrow pointing right. Paleontologists have discovered the first saber-toothed tiger paw prints. The fossilized prints date back 50,000 years and were discovered in Argentina. Produced by ...

They would have shared the state with other giants, like ground sloths, and even saber-tooth tigers. "There are those who hypothesize that they were using those large teeth to perform some sort of ...

An array of sabertooth teeth from Dinofelis, Lokotunjailurus, and Adeilosmilus CREDIT iScience Jiangzuo et al. A sabertooth tiger family tree CREDIT iScience Jiangzuo et al.

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The curved teeth of the saber-tooth tiger represents an evolutionary paradox. Gaining its trademark curved fangs made it functionally optimal for piercing the flesh of its prey. But that level of ...

Well, this is a story of a celebrity animal. Researchers are asking, whatever happened to the saber-toothed tiger? Kids learn in school about those tigers with canine teeth - the long, pointy ones ...