The tooth of an extinct baby mammoth is considered a rare find in Mississippi and it will be at a museum in June.

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” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paleontologist holds a megalodon fossil tooth. Kristen Grace/FLMNH, CC BY-SA The ratios of strontium isotopes in fossil shark ...

Today's Arctic may feel remote and desolate, but more than 70 million years ago, it was a surprisingly lively place for some ...

Take a trip with me 25 million years into the past. We’re going for a swim in one of central Australia’s slow-flowing rivers ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have uncovered new information suggesting a potential connection between Homo ...

Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of ...

NEW YORK — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The finds offer new clues about ...

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.

Scientists retrieved proteins from six teeth unearthed in China that reveal a potential link between Homo erectus and later ...