They were comparatively small (about three to five meters long, or 10-16 feet) and had a battery of formidable teeth. Modern mysticetes or baleen whales are the largest animals that have ever ...

To test this balance, researchers used 3D-printed steel tooth replicas to simulate bites in a controlled experiment. The ...

Sabre teeth have very specific characteristics: they are exceptionally long, sharp canines that tend ... of the teeth to ...

The ancestors of today's gentle giants of the ocean were equipped with the razor-sharp teeth of a fearsome ... the scientists created 3D models of the teeth of the eight extinct whale species.

But behind the fearsome appearance of saber teeth lies a conundrum. "They're probably really fragile," says paleontologist Emily Rayfield, of the University of Bristol. "In some animals these ...

The types of food an animal ... loss of sharp teeth. In fact, devils have the strongest bite force per body weight of any living mammal. In the interactive below, you can check out 3D models ...

my colleagues and I have found a new rule of biological growth that explains unexpected similarities in sharp structures found across the tree of life — in teeth, horns, claws, beaks, animal ...