Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Ape-Like Human Ancestors Were Largely Vegetarian 3.3 Million Years Ago in South Africa, Fossil Teeth Reveal
Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...
76-million-year-old murder case launched after fossil found with tooth marks in Canada
A scan of the bone found that the edges of the puncture don’t match the break points on the rest of the bone, meaning it wasn’t caused during the fossilization process, and cemented and compacted ...
New Scientist on MSN7d
Fossil claimed to be new species of mosasaur is suspected forgery
A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other ...
Scientists Suspect Newly Discovered Mosasaur Fossil Is a Forgery
Researchers are calling for CT scans to confirm the authenticity of a Cretaceous period fossil that led to the identification ...
Isotopes in early South African hominin teeth show they ate little meat
A team of climate geochemists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, University of the Witwatersrand and Princeton ...
The 70-mn years old marine dinosaur turns out to be a fossil fraud
A jawbone fossil found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a new species of marine reptile. However, new research suggests ...
How Shark Tooth Forensics Connects Classrooms To Ancient Oceans
Citizen science is evolving in classrooms, as students contribute to understanding the ancient ecology of sharks through ...