In 2015, the discovery of Tetrapodophis amplectus, a four-limbed snake fossil, ignited excitement as a potential evolutionary ...

While all types of ancient remains are valuable to science, teeth— protected by enamel, the hardest substance in the body—are ...

“It’s fascinating to see some of the strangeness of the natural world that we see today was also present at the height of the age of the dinosaurs,” said Professor Edmund Jarzembowski, an associate ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

World’s oldest fungi, found in fossils, may rewrite Earth’s early history. Fungal fossils, hundreds of millions of years older than previously known, shed light on the evolution of fungi ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

The latest evidence of these ancient transatlantic excursions is a tiny fossil tooth uncovered from rocks in the Brazilian Amazon. “Immediately, when one of my Brazilian colleagues showed me ...

Bonn is also a moment to fill a serious gap. The COP28 commitment to transition away from fossil fuels has not yet been incorporated in the COP30 agenda.

We're always learning something new about human evolution, and this time, ancient teeth can provide some interesting details ...

Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, the research presents the first solid evidence of frugivory in Notiomastodon platensis, a South American Pleistocene mastodon. The findings are based on a ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, ...

We looked at fossil teeth from hominins (humans and our closest extinct relatives) from the Omo Valley in Ethiopia, where we can see traces of more than two million years of human evolution, as well ...