Scientists discover sabre-toothed tortoise

Teeth like sabres probably conjures up images of fearsome meat-eating mammals who ruled their territory snarling and bounding with muscular prowess. But scientists have now discovered a sabre-toothed beast that feasted on leaves and stems some 260 million years ago in Brazil - and looked more like a tortoise than a feared predator.

The creature is known as Tiarajudens eccentricu.

Despite it's vegetarian tendencies, the dagger teeth will have helped it deal with predators and enemies. Speaking to LiveScience, vertebrate paleontologist Juan Carlos Cisneros at the Federal University of Piauí in Teresina, Brazil said: 'If you asked me how surprised I was about finding this fossil, I can tell you that finding a fossil so bizarre as Tiarajudens eccentricus, a fossil that looks like if it has been made from parts of different animals, is like finding a unicorn.'

'You see it, but you don't believe it.'

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