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A tooth unearthed by a seven-year-old boy at a fossil festival has been identified as being a rare find from an ancient mammal. James, from Wareham in Dorset found the tooth in sand brought for ...

Fossil evidence has led to the identification of a new prehistoric mammal with similarities to ... Ontocetus had four post-canine teeth, a bigger lower canine, and a fused, shorter jaw, which ...

The fossilized remains of the oldest known animal with “saber teeth” have been discovered ... scientists revealed the discovery of a fossil therapsid that’s the oldest of its kind, and ...

The sharp sword-shaped tooth fossil of the Gorgonopsia./Courtesy of Anna Sole Gorgonopsia was warm-blooded like mammals and had sharp, sword-like canine teeth similar to those of saber-toothed ...

The shapes, sizes and other features of the teeth also suggest the latest find is a new species. The scientists said they will work further on the matter. Three months after the mammal fossil was ...