See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Saber-toothed tigers may have had two sets of their famous fangs for a ...

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 ...

Tiger teeth can be quite telling. That’s the hope of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the New York State Museum, who performed a special scan on two banana-sized saber tooth tiger ...

A mechanical analysis of the distinctive canines of California's saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth that preceded each saber stayed in place for years to stabilize the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not every day you dig up the fossilized remains of an apex predator. Unless your name is Eddie Templeton, who recently ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

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 ...

It’s not every day you dig up the fossilized remains of an apex predator. Unless your name is Eddie Templeton, who recently discovered the crystallized toe bone of a saber-toothed tiger in a creek bed ...