Archaeologists from University College London and elsewhere have examined a molar tooth of a female Bos taurus (cow) discovered at Stonehenge.
Stonehenge....
A new genus and species of zhelestid mammal has been identified from the fossilized remains found in the Bayanshiree Formation in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert.
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The fossil record of freshwater crayfish is surprisingly sparse, comprising mostly trace fossils, some body fossils and rarely gastroliths. Paleontologists...
Patagorhynchus pascuali represents the first Cretaceous toothed monotreme from the supercontinent Gondwana.
Life reconstruction of Patagorhynchus pascuali....
Paleoanthropologists have analyzed zinc, strontium, carbon, and oxygen isotope and trace element ratios in a fossilized Neanderthal tooth as well as animal...
Paleoanthropologists have found a permanent lower molar of a young, likely female, hominin individual at the Tam Ngu Hao 2 limestone cave in the Annamite...
In a new paper published this week in the journal Science Advances, paleoanthropologists report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal...
Paleontologists have found a million-year-old hippo tooth at the site of Westbury Cave in Somerset, England. This fossil constitutes the earliest bona...
A new genus and species of extinct rodent has been identified from two fossilized teeth found in Puerto Rico.
This artist’s reconstruction shows the...
Neanderthals, our evolutionary cousins, used toothpicks nearly 46,000 years ago, a new study of their teeth has revealed.
A reconstruction of a Neanderthal...
An international team of scientists has sequenced and analyzed DNA from three mammoth specimens, two of which are more than one million years old. The...
An early mammal called Priacodon fruitaensis was well adapted for powerful and precise biting, and had a varied faunivorous diet that likely included insects...
A new genus and species of small-bodied fossil ape that lived during the Middle Miocene epoch has been identified from a fossilized tooth found in Ramnagar,...
An international team of scientists has successfully extracted and sequenced the mitochondrial DNA from an 80,000-year-old adult Neanderthal tooth found...
Orangutans (genus Pongo) are the closest living relatives of Gigantopithecus blacki, the biggest primate that ever walked the Earth, according to new research...
A 3-rooted lower molar, a rare trait primarily found in modern Asian lineages, was previously thought to have evolved after Homo sapiens dispersed from...
