Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

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 ...

"By looking at the spin of the black hole, you're essentially looking at its fossil record." Related: Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...

A biological anthropologist at the University of Coimbra in Portugal is hypothesizing that the mysterious flat patches found on the sides of teeth in ancient Europeans may have been due to the ...

Just in time for summer, the megalodon—the ancient, city bus-sized shark known as the “Megatooth”—has reared its ravenous snout. While the oceans are now safe from the Megatooth, which went extinct an ...

Had a mechanical engineer designed the human frame, he would no doubt have built the jaws after the fashion of a nut cracker, with the muscles placed at the ends of the jaw levers, and the teeth ...

But what they actually live on is plant foods.” What’s more, she found starch granules from plants on fossil teeth and stone tools, which suggests humans may have been eating grains ...

Although scientists have uncovered a number of transitional fossils of bird-like animals, precisely what was the first bird is ... Living bird species also have no teeth, although some species – often ...