Dinosaur teeth are no longer just relics of prehistory. Scientists have discovered they hold an untapped record of Earth’s deep climate past, revealing that atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels ...

A barnacle-covered tooth found off the North Carolina coast counts as one of the largest megalodon shark teeth ever ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single tooth found among dinosaur bones in North Dakota reveals that some of the largest sea reptiles also ruled ancient rivers.

A recent study published in Papers in Palaeontology describes the discovery and identification of a new species of pinheirodontid multituberculate based on the preserved hemimandible from the Upper ...

What we did To test these assumptions, we analyzed more than 500 teeth from 27 primate species, both extinct and living. The sample included gorillas, orangutans, macaques, colobus monkeys, fossil ...

A lucky Florida family found a once-in-a-lifetime fossil that belonged to one of the biggest predators that ever roamed the ocean. Bricen Columbia, 19, found a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth in South ...

A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of a dramatic predator-prey encounter. The discovery suggests the giant ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an ...

Screenshot from a video taken by a remotely controlled underwater robot at a depth of 3,090 meters with a Otodus megalodon tooth sticking out from the ocean floor. An international team of researchers ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.