The most widely known genus of sabre-toothed cats is Smilodon, the "sabre-toothed tiger." A large, short-limbed cat that lived in North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch, it was about ...

Sabre teeth can be ideal for puncturing the flesh of prey, which may explain why they evolved in different groups of mammals at least five times ...

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 most widely known genus of sabre-toothed cats is Smilodon, the "sabre-toothed tiger." A large, short-limbed cat that lived in North and South America during the Pleistocene Epoch, it was about ...