An extensive growth series of Smilodon skulls and mandibles from Rancho La Brea is divided into ontogenetic stages based on tooth-eruption pattern and occlusal wear. Eruption sequence is compared ...

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In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome ...

Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Smilodon : a short history of becoming the iconic sabertooth / H. Gregory McDonald -- 2. The phylogenetic context of Smilodon / Lars Werdelin and Therese Flink -- 3.

The sabertooth cat is an Ice Age icon and emblem of strength, tenacity and intelligence. These animals shared the North American landscape with other large carnivores, including short-faced bears, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Canids and hyaenids display a high density of features of microwear on canine teeth that reflect their similarity in killing strategy. However ...

New research suggests that the feeding strategy of Kolponomos, an enigmatic shell-crushing marine predator that lived about 20 million years ago, was strangely similar to a very different kind of ...

In public imagination, the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon ranks alongside Tyrannosaurus rex as the ultimate killing machine. Powerfully built, with upper canines like knives, Smilodon was a fearsome ...

New evidence shows that saber-toothed cats may have been much more fierce than we originally thought. The cats belonging to Smilodon populator species—who likely used their elongated canines to tear ...

Smilodon was the ultimate sabercat. About the size of a tiger, but with burlier arms and elongated fangs that have made the genus famous, the Ice Age carnivore stalked camels, bison, and other ...