In the scorching desert of Peru’s Pisco Basin, a major fossil discovery has been made. Paleontologists have unearthed the ...

Researchers have discovered a prehistoric ‘demon-toothed’ fish in Socorro County, New Mexico. The fish, which lived over 300 ...

Primeval fish that were thought to be "living fossils," largely unchanged since ... the bones of the jaw and skull have continued to evolve. In fact, study co-author Richard Cloutier, an ...

A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals that both structures ...

A jaw-dropping, prehistoric discovery was recently made in the backyard of a New York home. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first ...

The "jaw-dropping" discovery ... years before the first dinosaurs walked the Earth. Scans of the Gogo fish fossil showed that its heart was more complex than expected for these primitive fish.

The biggest indication that the fossil is forged are the teeth, says Sharpe. Each mosasaur tooth corresponds to a pit in the jaw. “Even if the fossil is very poor quality, you can still count ...

The fossil was found by a resident near Scotchtown, New York, who noticed a piece of a mastodon jaw protruding from the topsoil, according to the New York State Museum. The homeowner saw two teeth ...

The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same ... Getty Images Scientists in China have uncovered a fossilized jaw fragment of a newly identified, extinct cat species that was ...

Initially, scientists thought the two-inch-long jaw fossil belonged to a small crocodile, but they soon discovered they were wrong. “It wasn’t until we got it back to the lab and got under a ...