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 tigers may have had two sets of their famous fangs for a period of their adolescence, fossil evidence reveals. One species of these ancient and extinct cats, famed for their large and ...

The fearsome, saber-like teeth of Smilodon fatalis — California's state fossil — are familiar to anyone who has ever visited Los Angeles' La Brea Tar Pits, a sticky trap from which more than 2,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The saber-toothed cats that once prowled modern day California had ...

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 ...

Saber teeth — the large canines — are pretty fearsome. These fangs have evolved at least five times in predators that are now extinct, but there's been something of a mystery as to why. Sometimes we ...