Saber-toothed salmon teeth more like tusks than fangs

Fossils suggest similarity to warthogs

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

PORTLAND, Ore. — Pacific Northwest nightmares are getting a revision.