Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Ice Age’s most famous predator, Smilodon, killed with ...

Thylacosmilus was a marsupial predator with extreme saber teeth that functioned very differently from those of true saber-toothed cats. Its elongated canines and unusual jaw structure suggest it ...

The right lower canine of a large proborhyaenid sparassodont from the Tremembé Formation, Brazil. Scale bars – 5 mm in (A-E) and 20 mm in (H). Credit: Rangel et al It’s a small, weathered ...

Over millions of years, sabre teeth evolved repeatedly in different groups of carnivorous mammals, marsupial relatives like Thylacosmilus and “false” sabre-tooth cats such as Barborofelis. The most ...

Sabertoothed mammalian predators, all now extinct, were almost exclusively feloid carnivorans (Eutheria, Placentalia): here a couple of extinct metatherian predators are considered in comparison with ...

The animal kingdom encompasses a beautifully diverse array of species — from mammals and birds to reptiles and insects. And we’ve got them all! Animals are an integral part of Earth’s ecosystem, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A terrifying saber-toothed marsupial had such huge fangs its eyes were at the side of its head - like a horse or cow, according to new research. The roots went right back to its braincase - producing ...

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 ...