Sabre teeth — the long, sharp, blade-like canines found in extinct predators such as Smilodon — represent one of the most extreme dental adaptations in Nature. They evolved at least five times ...

Imagine a saber-toothed predator—but instead of being a big cat, it’s a marsupial. Thylacosmilus was a bizarre prehistoric mammal with huge fangs, yet it carried its young in a pouch. How did this ...

Predators have evolved sabre teeth many times during the history of life – and we now have a better idea why these teeth develop as they do. Sabre teeth have very specific characteristics: they are ...

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The newly discovered fossils, dating back to roughly 5 million years ago, could have implications for human bipedalism, researchers say. reading time 3 minutes Paleontologists recently revisited a ...

A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the top of its skull could hunt effectively despite having wide-set eyes, like a cow ...

Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History, the Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales and CONICET investigated how Thylacosmilus atrox, an extinct, ...

A new study investigates how an extinct, carnivorous marsupial relative with canines so large they extended across the top of its skull could hunt effectively despite having wide-set eyes, like a cow ...

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