A university student on a fossil-hunting field trip in Dorset made a stunning discovery: a 145-million-year-old jawbone ...

In this video, the weird fossil tooth being described is from a Tritylodont, which is an early "sister" relative to mammals that lived between 208 million and 200 million years ago -- when ...

Proteins degrade over time, making their history hard to study. But new research has uncovered ancient proteins in the enamel ...

While fossil hunting in a riverbed, a large and well-preserved megalodon shark tooth was recovered underwater. This video documents the search, highlights identifying features of megalodon teeth, and ...

Fossils can be mistaken for odd shaped items.A local How can you tell if it really is a fossil? Well sharks teeth are unmistakable but other material such as horse, molars & bone material come ...

But identifying the ‘Desmo’ species the tooth belonged to was more difficult. The fossil was originally discovered by Warren Addicott, a paleontologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, in 1965. To ...

Researchers have sequenced proteins from an ancient rhino relative from the cold, dry Haughton crater site (shown) in the ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

The oldest protein fragments ever recovered have been extracted from fossilised teeth found in Kenya's Rift Valley, revealing ...

"In addition to helping people find and identify fossil shark teeth, I teach them about Florida's natural history and educate them on the extinct and current sharks that inhabit our waters," he adds.

Editor’s Note: Video above shows 2025 Fossil Road Show JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) said a fossil tooth found in the state ...

The team, however, was able to identify several 13.8 million year old fossil teeth as belonging to this shark demonstrating that it originated much earlier than previously assumed. RELATED TOPICS ...