Saber-toothed salmon teeth more like tusks than fangs
Fossils suggest similarity to warthogs
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SABER-TOOTHED RETHINK One of two recent fossil finds of the extinct saber-toothed salmon is causing a revision of how scientists think the famed teeth looked. They now appear to have stuck out sideways.
Museum of Natural and Cultural History/University of Oregon