“Mammoth teeth are different from mastodon teeth,” Davis said. “That’s just the smoking gun. Once you see that, you know it’s one or the other.” ...

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

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

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 ...

For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...

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

Hidden beneath the waves were the teeth of a prehistoric giant. These fossils are the closest we get to touching a living legend.

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