For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

A dinosaur’s tooth found embedded in the skull remains of another has revealed insights into the final moments of a fight between two giant beasts over 66 million years ago. The skull of the ...

A Florida teen will have quite the story for his friends to chew on when they all meet back in class after spring break.

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...

Compared to the great apes, humans have an exceptionally long childhood, during which parents, grandparents and other adults contribute to their physical and cognitive development. This is a key ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The fossil that writer Jacopo Prisco ordered online. - Toby Hancock/CNN It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth ...

Shark teeth found in 5-million-year-old whale skulls provide direct evidence of ancient feeding behavior and predator-prey ...

A man has shared a photo of an animal tooth his wife found in her backyard when she was a child, wowing social media users with the fossil. Jannick Ketele, 33, from Belgium shared photos of the ...

Ancient fossils from South China reveal the earliest bony fishes and shed new light on how jaws, teeth, and key vertebrate features evolved before the major fish lineages diverged.

A 16-year-old boy from Wyoming made a prehistoric find off of Florida’s Gulf Coast.Aiden Andrews came across a six-inch ...