In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in mammals, ...
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The extreme teeth of saber-toothed predators were 'optimal' for biting into prey, study revealsA study titled "Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme 'saber-tooth' morphology" published in Current Biology reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal ...
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.
In the history of teeth, perhaps no tooth is as famous as the saber tooth. These long, blade-like canines seem almost perfectly optimized to kill prey. They've evolved at least five times in ...
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