Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel of the teeth of 18-million-year-old fossilized mammals from Kenya's Rift ...

Scientists say the findings help fill a major gap in the fossil record from Asia during the first 10 million years of the "Age of Mammals" A collection of ancient fossil teeth is helping scientists ...

Fossils have a way of captivating everyone, no matter their profession or the species unearthed, but there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth ...

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history museum, you may have noticed one characteristic that all these fossilized ...

A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone belonging to a previously unknown mammal species with razor-like teeth. With the ...

A collection of ancient fossil teeth is helping scientists piece together how mammals survived—and eventually flourished—after the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. In ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the mass extinction Shutterstock Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from 37 ...