For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...
Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...
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 ...
Ian Towle receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). Luca Fiorenza receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC DP240101081). For decades, small grooves on ...
A man has shared a photo of an animal tooth his wife found in her backyard when she was a child, wowing social media users with the fossil. Jannick Ketele, 33, from Belgium shared photos of the ...
A Florida family made the find of a lifetime when they unearthed a 6.5-inch megalodon tooth near Charleston, South Carolina, earlier this month. Paul Columbia and his family of four from Largo, ...
It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...
The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark teeth can be used to better understand how coastal environments evolved in ancient times, according to our newly published work. Our study was one of ...
A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...
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