Saber-toothed salmon teeth more like tusks than fangs

Susan Milius, Kerin M. Claeson

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Abstract

Sharp front teeth gave the saber-toothed nickname to the extinct Oncorhynchus rastrosus fish. But rather than pointing downward like fangs, these teeth now appear to have stuck out to the sides a bit like warthog tusks, Kerin Claeson of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine reported January 4 at the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology annual meeting.
Original languageAmerican English
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2016

Disciplines

  • Paleontology

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