The fossil may have lost water, or color, or the proteins of the soft tissue may have degraded. Unaltered hard parts: teeth and very recent shells, bone or shell encased in petroleum or in ...

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

However, what we can conclude at this point is that, considering the similarity to our modern samples, the dental size variation of Parapapio appears not to have evolved much over the one-to-two ...

Scientists used lost fossil photos to identify Tameryraptor markgrafi, a new dinosaur species from Egypt. The fossil was ...

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery of a Cretaceous-period jaw with unusual teeth in a Moroccan mine. There’s only one problem—the remains may have been ...