Learn how a variety of tooth shapes drove evolution across multiple kinds of mammals.

Saber teeth – the long, sharp, blade-like canines found in extinct predators such as Smilodon – represent one of the most ...

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

Sabre-toothed predators -- best know from the infamous Smilodon -- evolved multiple times across different mammal groups. A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' and highly ...

Saber teeth such as those that belonged to apex Ice Age predators were superbly shaped for puncturing prey and subduing them, ...

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores – but how? What type of food did extinct ...

They lived about 30 million years apart and never set foot on the same continent. Yet Giganotosaurus carolinii is always ...

While most adult humans have 32 permanent teeth, or 28 if your wisdom teeth don’t behave, you might be surprised to learn that the animal world ... is used by both carnivorous and herbivorous ...

A new study of modern reptiles will improve our ability to identify the diets of ancient animals, including dinosaurs.

While most often its animals that consume plants, the opposite is true in a unique group of plants classified as carnivorous. Reference to the latter often conjures up images from movies of some ...