With two massive canines, an L-shaped jaw, and a pouch to carry its young, the saber-toothed marsupial Thylacosmilus atrox sounds like an evolutionary Madlib. But researchers have now described an ...

An illustration of a sabertooth tiger. The predators went extinct between about 8,000 and 10,000 years ago. Adam Hartstone-Rose ...

Related: Ancient saber-toothed 'gorgons' bit each other in ritualized combat But the marsupial sabertooth’s eye placement is more in line with herbivores such as cows and horses, which see the ...

Sabertooth tigers definitely weren’t pet cats – but they may have purred like one Katherine Fidler Published August 22, 2023 1:39pm Updated August 22, 2023 2:30pm ...

Seeing through the eyes of the sabertooth Thylacosmilus atrox (Metatheria, Sparassodonta). Communications Biology , 2023; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04624-5 Cite This Page : ...

Thylacosmilus, or the 'marsupial sabertooth', had wide-set eyes that didn't match with ambush hunting, yet it somehow found a way to thrive. Thylacosmilus, or the 'marsupial sabertooth', ...

When a sabertooth tiger called out, what noise did it make -- a mighty roar or a throaty purr? A new study examined the data behind the arguments for each vocalization and found that the answer ...

Sabertooth skull. (ISU photo) In the animated movie “Ice Age,” there was a scary, saber-tooth tiger named Diego — which had real-life counterparts that lived in Iowa some 13,000 years ago ...

Despite having eyes as wide-set as a cow's and surprisingly long upper-canine teeth with roots tunneling deep into its skull, the "marsupial sabertooth" proved to be an effective carnivore, a new ...