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

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

A team of researchers led by the Smithsonian has discovered the oldest known pterosaur fossil in North America. Pterosaurs were flying reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs and were the first ...

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 ...

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

A new fossil study reveals that teeth began as skin sensors, helping explain why modern teeth still react painfully to cold ...

Researchers have extracted 2-million-year-old protein remains from Paranthropus robustus teeth to reveal biological sex and genetic variability.

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

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

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...