Schematic of felid hyoid anatomy in situ in (a) Panthera tigris and (b) Caracal caracal. Stylohyoid is orange, epihyoid (* = ligamentous in Panthera) is purple, ceratohyoid is yellow, basihyoid is red ...

Regular tigers are intimidating enough as it is, but the fact that there was once something called the saber-toothed tiger ...