Sabre-toothed predators – best know from the infamous Smilodon – evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study, published today in Current Biology reveals why: these teeth ...

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

"He was traded to the museum over in Los Angeles here for a skull of a sabre-tooth tiger. "This is like them trading an animal for an animal," the Ngarrindjeri Elder told the ABC. On Friday ...

The curved teeth of the saber-tooth tiger represents an evolutionary paradox. Gaining its trademark curved fangs made it functionally optimal for piercing the flesh of its prey. But that level of ...

Sabre-toothed predators -- best know from the infamous Smilodon -- evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' and ...

Well, this is a story of a celebrity animal. Researchers are asking, whatever happened to the saber-toothed tiger? Kids learn in school about those tigers with canine teeth - the long, pointy ones ...