A new analysis suggests saber teeth were highly specialized for puncturing prey, ultimately at the cost of durability.

A 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 ...

Anglers off the coast of Pakistan felt something bite their baited lines and reeled in a “torpedo-shaped” predator with teeth on its tongue. It turned out to be a new species. Scientists Sher ...

Anyone growing up in the 1970s in a coastal town like Charleston may recall the unprecedented dread of the beach in the wake ...

bone-shearing teeth. Evidence suggests Cretoxyrhina fed on mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and even the giant bony fish Xiphactinus, a fierce predator itself. Sharks are made of cartilage, which does not ...

About 76 million years ago, a young Cryodrakon, one of Earth's largest flying creatures, met its end at the hands of a crocodilian predator on a lush coastal plain in Alberta. Recent fossil findings ...

Remnants of a bizarre “shark-toothed” aquatic predator that lived alongside dinosaurs were probably forged, according to new research. The fossil possesses highly unusual blade-like teeth ...