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Research overview: mesowear and gross tooth-wear analysis in fossil felids
OverviewThis overview examines mesowear and other gross tooth-wear approaches as applied to extinct cats, which assess the cumulative shape and rounding of cusps to infer long-term dietary abrasiveness and ca…
Research overview: the long global decline of the sabertooths
OverviewThis overview takes a deep-time perspective on the rise and fall of sabertooth cats, whose machairodont lineage flourished for more than ten million years before vanishing in the late Pleistocene. Aft…
Sabretoothed Carnivores and the Killing of Large Prey
PaperThis study examined how sabertooth carnivores killed large prey by comparing the anatomy and inferred mechanics of dirk- and scimitar-toothed forms across multiple lineages. The authors analysed featu…
Ki Andersson, David Norman, Lars Werdelin · PLoS ONE · 2011