Amino acids have been discovered in 48-million-year-old fossil teeth, revealing new insights into ancient life and evolution ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A 66-million-year-old Edmontosaurus skull at the Museum of the Rockies preserves a Tyrannosaurus tooth, capturing a rare ...

For a shark that vanishes almost as quickly as it appears, the great white has left behind a surprisingly messy family ...

After years of searching with his dad, fifth-grader Jaxon Hinton uncovered a remarkably preserved prehistoric shark tooth estimated to be 18 million years old ...

Having a piece of dinosaur history meant visiting museums or joining a fossil dig site. But today, fossil collecting is no ...

Learn how a fossil tooth embedded in a plesiosaur reveals a violent attack by a giant predatory fish in the Cretaceous sea.

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...

An ancient species has had experts scratching their heads about its unusual jaw shape. The salamander-like creature had a ...