Picture the frozen winds of the Ice Age tearing across vast, wild plains. Imagine two giants—one with fangs like daggers, the ...

Saber teeth took this tradeoff to the extreme, Rayfield and her colleagues report in Current Biology, becoming about as good as they could be at puncturing prey, ultimately sacrificing durability.

Saber-toothed swan song . As the pieces of the Smilodon puzzle fall into place, perhaps the biggest remaining mystery is why the animal disappeared 10,000 to 12,000 years ago.

A Saber-Toothed Predator From Long Before Evolution Came Up With Cats As an extinction crisis wiped out species at the end of the Permian Period, a predatory species emerged that dominated ...