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Happy Origin Day! On this day in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published, changing how we viewed the…
Happy Origin Day! On this day in 1859, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was published, changing how we viewed the…
Great new PeerJ article by Janis et al. came out today (https://peerj.com/articles/9346/), appearing 7 yrs ago to the day (!…
Happy #OriginDay! Darwin's Origin of Species was released 160 years ago today! Only the framework provided by Charles Darwin's…
Even the tiniest kitten (like Pinky here) has a bit of the mighty Smilodon in them—at least they think they do! Happy #Internatio…
Fascinating work on bite strength in saber-toothed cats and marsupials. Spoiler: they probably couldn't bite very hard!
The sabre-toothed had an "embarrassing" bite Read more: Comparative Biomechanical Modeling of Metatherian and Placental Saber…
The sabre-toothed Thylacosmilus atrox might have had teeth the size of knives, but new research reveals its bite was "embarrassin…
Sabretooth's teeth were fragile, so killing power depended on a thick…
How an extinct pouched sabretooth killed its prey has now been modelled by scientists - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
New paper on PLoS One: "Comparative Biomechanical Modeling of Metatherian and Placental Saber-Tooths: A Different Kind of…
New study compares bite mechanics of pleistocene Smilodon vs the ancient felid-like marsupial…
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