(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 ...

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 ...

The CT-scanned skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain.

A 319-million-year-old fossilised fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest ...

We used powerful imaging methods to peer inside a 380-million-year-old fossil called Elpistostege from Quebec, Canada, to reveal the oldest ... teeth from Silurian age rocks in Guizhou province ...

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 ...

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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 ...