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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

where the Australopithecus fossils were discovered Dominic Stratford The researchers then compared the 15N to 14N ratio in the Australopithecus remains to fossilized tooth samples from animals ...