An array of sabertooth teeth from Dinofelis, Lokotunjailurus, and Adeilosmilus CREDIT iScience Jiangzuo et al. A sabertooth tiger family tree CREDIT iScience Jiangzuo et al.

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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 ...

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 ...

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.