Putting together the puzzle of human evolution sometimes comes down to about 32 pieces–our teeth. Several fossil teeth dating ...

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

This technique enabled scientists to create virtual microscopic slices through the teeth of this fossil. The exceptional quality of preservation of the growth structures in this specimen has made it ...

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 ...

3D reconstruction of the fossil skull of the sub-adult early Homo from the Dmanisi site in Georgia. The green, orange and red colors represent the preserved teeth (imaged respectively with the ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

A fossil enthusiast recently discovered a fossilized tooth dating back 270 million years from a petalodont (petal-toothed) ...

Researchers hope the "exquisitely preserved" fossil will cast new light on an enduring mystery in paleontology.

Analyses of the remains showed that Romaleodelphis pollerspoecki belongs to the group of toothed whales but differs ...

Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that lived between 70 ...

The 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor known as Lucy rose to fame through an incredible combination of circumstances ...

Coelacanths are strange fish that are currently only known from two species found along the East African coast and in ...