(Heming Zhang via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The ...

The oldest preserved vertebrate brain has been found in a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish skull that was removed from an ...

located in the rolling farm country of northeastern China, peasant farmers make only a few hundred dollars a year. They know they can make many times that amount by selling just one prized fossil ...

But why don’t today’s birds have teeth? New fossil discoveries offer up some clues. The fossils suggest Limusaurus lost its teeth in adulthood, switching from an omnivorous diet to a more ...

Tooth enamel is more than 95% inorganic, and the vast majority of everything we see in the vertebrate fossil record is teeth, or has teeth. Building off this realization, we decided to investigate ...

Most of the animal fossils in museum collections were formed from hard body parts such as bones, teeth and shells ... and small fossil show us the oldest example of a fossilised vertebrate ...

A bizarre spatula-billed pterosaur with ridiculous amounts of teeth has been discovered in a German quarry ... Pterosaurs are relatively rare in the fossil record because of the fragility of their ...

With the boots, she told her mom, she could go out into the water at Calvert Cliffs State Park in Maryland and find more big teeth to add to her fossil collection. When she got her present on ...

(It's not certain whether Santa had left them, or the Tooth Fairy.) Molly put them on, and joined her family for their latest fossil-hunting trip to Chesapeake Bay near Maryland's Calvert Cliffs ...

By building a mathematical model using the relative lengths of molar teeth, we were able to track evolutionary changes in prenatal growth rates in the fossil record. Based on our model ...

By building a mathematical model using the relative lengths of molar teeth, we were able to track evolutionary changes in prenatal growth rates in the fossil record. Based on our model, it looks as if ...