Through fossilized tooth enamel, scientists are reconstructing the diets and landscapes that existed millions of years ago.

Detailed imaging of a 250-million-year-old fossil has revealed the first proof that the ancestors of mammals laid eggs. The ...

In a surprising new study, Australia's most famous plant-eating dinosaur has been described as a "picky eater with a nose for ...

In the aftermath of Earth’s most catastrophic extinction event, one unlikely survivor rose to dominate a shattered world: ...

Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This ...

The animal kingdom is no stranger to astonishing abilities, including the remarkable power to regenerate lost or damaged body ...

We thought it was evolution, but an experiment with pencils shows that tips like teeth and thorns may owe their rounded shape ...

Wisdom teeth are more than just an uncomfortable dentist appointment. They are evidence of how human evolution cherry-picked ...

Suffering from a dangling tooth on a broken jaw, grizzled Fat Bear Week veteran 32 “Chunk” handily defeated an extremely large 856 to become the 2025 champion. Now in its 11th year, the annual bracket ...

We went scuba diving to search for Ice Age fossils and shark teeth. During the dive, we found something completely unexpected. One tooth stood out immediately. It belongs to an ancient shark related ...

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A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested 1. The ...