Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

The fossil sheds light on interactions within the Cretaceous food web and may represent the first record of this type of ...

A new study reveals why: these teeth were 'functionally optimal' ... Jan. 3, 2025 — A new study presents what is believed to be the oldest known example in the fossil record of an evolutionary ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

It described giant, mysterious fossilized shark teeth discovered in the 1960s by fishermen dredging ... The bone fragments of Lucy, a 3.18 million year-old human ancestor which rarely leave ...

Skulls are where the most characteristic features of modern birds, such as a lack of teeth and an enlarged premaxillary bone in the upper beak, can be identified. The fossil examined in the study ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Now, according to a study published in the journal Stem Cells Translational Medicine, researchers have shown it’s possible to cultivate lab-grown human teeth cells inside of a pig’s mouth.

Although scientists have uncovered a number of transitional fossils of bird-like animals ... Living bird species also have no teeth, although some species – often aquatic ones – have ridges on their ...