Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

The tooth count ... was too big for a seal and too small and oddly shaped for a whale, NOAA Fisheries noted. Duquette sought the expertise of Dr. Nick Pyenson, an expert in fossil marine mammals ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other ...

Paleontologists have discovered a strange new species of marine lizard with dagger-like teeth that lived near the ... orca and leopard seals—dominate. Khinjaria acuta was a member of the family ...

A “ serrated blade” found sticking from a rock in the United Kingdom has been identified as a “nearly perfect” prehistoric ...

Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), horse tooth (5), petrified wood (6), graptolite (7), fish (8), ...

Dinosaur fossils have been dug up across the world, but one of the newest discoveries involves a ferocious creature with a familiar name that left its teeth behind in coastal England. Researchers ...

Land animals and plants usually decomposed or were eaten, and mainly the hard parts -- teeth, bones, shells, or wood -- were preserved. Fossils can be formed in several ways. Buried bone and shell ...

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.