The saber-toothed cats that once prowled modern day California had more distinct dental features than even their sabers would suggest. Some of the complete skulls had a tooth socket occupied by ...

A few tens of thousands of years ago, the world would have looked a lot more like a fantasy land. The landscape was covered over by wilderness, humanity not yet having sequestered it to the ...

A variety of saber-toothed animals have evolved to fill different niches. Matt Celeskey / Charles R. Knight Public Domain / Juan Carlos Cisneros, Fernando Abdala, Tea Jashashvill, Ana de Oliveira ...

Saber-toothed cats were already one of the more intimidating of all ancient creatures, but knowing that they could probably put a hole right in your skull with a single chomp just adds to their ...

Saber teeth — the large fangs of saber-tooth cat fame — are fearsome. They evolved at least five times in predators that are now extinct, but there's been something of a mystery as to why.

(CN) — At 8.9 feet long, Oncorhynchus rastrosus was the largest salmon to ever swim the seas, but another claim to fame gave rise to its fearsome moniker: Surviving fossils showed evidence of two ...

A skull found in 2017 in the East Nishnabotna River in Page County belonged to a saber-toothed cat that roamed the area about 13,500 years ago — give or take about a century — according to a ...

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 ...

A Saber-Toothed Predator From Long Before Evolution Came Up With Cats As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated ...

At the Smithsonian | August 20, 2024 ‘Fearsome’ Saber-Toothed Cats Needed Their Baby Teeth and Mommies, Too. According to new research, two sets of sabers and unusual lower jaw anatomy show ...

Saber teeth took this tradeoff to the extreme, Rayfield and her colleagues report in Current Biology, becoming about as good as they could be at puncturing prey, ultimately sacrificing durability.