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Research overview: convergent evolution of the sabertooth form across lineages
OverviewThe sabertooth body plan evolved repeatedly in unrelated lineages, and this overview reviews this striking convergence and what it reveals. True cats produced sabertooths such as Smilodon and Homother…
Research overview: dirk-tooth versus scimitar-tooth ecomorphs
OverviewSabertoothed cats are often divided into dirk-toothed forms with long, narrow canines and scimitar-toothed forms with shorter, broader, serrated canines, and this overview reviews the functional and e…
Research overview: extinction of sabertoothed cats and the loss of a predatory guild
OverviewSabertoothed cats vanished in the late Pleistocene alongside much of the large-mammal fauna, and this overview reviews hypotheses for their extinction and its significance. Proposed drivers include th…