Catch up on the museum discoveries you may have missed over the past few months Emma Saaty & Jack Tamisiea Smithsonian researchers rediscovered a tooth from an ancient hippo-like marine mammal in the ...
Italians began exploring a varied diet sometime between the 7th and 6th centuries BC, according to a new analysis of ancient teeth from Iron Age Italians. Unravelling details about the lifestyles of ...
Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...
When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...
The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than you'd think about the relationships between our fossil ...
Desmostylus Tooth. Jack Tamisiea, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian researchers rediscovered a tooth from an ancient hippo-like marine mammal in the National Museum of ...
At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.