Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why they evolved in different groups of mammals at least five times ...

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

Known as the saber-toothed tiger, Smilodon was a formidable predator with long, dagger-like canine teeth. These Ice Age cats roamed the Americas and coexisted with early humans, who likely feared ...

Sabre teeth were last seen in Smilodon, often called sabre-toothed tigers, which existed until about 10,000 years ago. To investigate why these teeth kept re-evolving, Tahlia Pollock at the ...

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 ...

Those advantages helped saber-toothed cats, including Smilodon, to become apex predators ... whatever happened to the saber-toothed tiger? Kids learn in school about those tigers with canine ...

They've evolved at least five times in mammals, most notably in the saber-tooth cat Smilodon, who sported serrated sabers that could measure nearly one foot long. But behind the fearsome ...