Learn how a fossil tooth embedded in a plesiosaur reveals a violent attack by a giant predatory fish in the Cretaceous sea.
My fixation on a small, desolate locale in the heart of the Sahara Desert started with a single line buried in a 630-page ...
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 ...
Catch up on the museum discoveries you may have missed over the past few months Emma Saaty & Jack Tamisiea Smithsonian researchers rediscovered a tooth from an ancient hippo-like marine mammal in the ...
Three tiny Purgatorius teeth found in Colorado are helping scientists trace how early primates evolved and spread across North America.
Desmostylus Tooth. Jack Tamisiea, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian researchers rediscovered a tooth from an ancient hippo-like marine mammal in the National Museum of ...
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 ...
Having a piece of dinosaur history meant visiting museums or joining a fossil dig site. But today, fossil collecting is no ...