Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal, from before the age of the dinosaurs, was a dog-like creature that was ...

Saber-toothed predators—best known from the infamous Smilodon—evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A study ...

distant mammal relatives with long, serrated canine teeth were the dominant carnivores on land. Called gorgonopsians, the earliest animals in this lineage have long been missing from the fossil ...

A saber-toothed predator from over 270 million years ago has been unearthed on Mallorca. The fossil represents the ...

These saber teeth suggest that this gorgonopsian ... The discovery of this new fossil is another piece of the puzzle for how mammals evolved.” ...

T wo new studies of Jurassic-era fossils from researchers in China, the US, and Australia offer new insight into how mammals such as humans evolved – specifically, how we got the ears and teeth ...

These are prehistoric mammal relatives that lived during ... group of tetrapod predators we know of in the fossil record to evolve saber-tooth characteristics—i.e., very large, blade-like ...

The saber teeth suggest this animal was ... The discovery of this new fossil is another piece of the puzzle for how mammals evolved.' ...

Scientists have unearthed a remarkable fossil of a gorgonopsian, a saber-toothed predator they believe to be the oldest ever discovered.

"The saber teeth are a common feature in ... He added: "The discovery of this new fossil is another piece of the puzzle for how mammals evolved.” ...

The shapes, sizes and other features of the teeth also suggest the latest find is a new species. The scientists said they will work further on the matter. Three months after the mammal fossil was ...