Saber-tooth predators have long fascinated scientists and the public alike, epitomized by the fearsome Smilodon. These animals evolved their iconic blade-like canines at least five independent times ...

To some people it may have been just a small bone; a darkened and fossilized relic laying in a creek bed since the end of the last ice age. But thousands of years ago it was a part of one of the most ...

Saber teeth, those iconic elongated upper canine teeth, have long fascinated both scientists and the general public, notably because they have appeared several times in the fossil record, including ...

Saber-toothed predators—best known from the infamous Smilodon—evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A study titled "Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the ...

Sometimes we have a news story asking, whatever happened to that celebrity? Well, this is a story of a celebrity animal. Researchers are asking, whatever happened to the saber-toothed tiger? Kids ...

In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, ...