The tooth of an extinct baby mammoth is considered a rare find in Mississippi and it will be at a museum in June.

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history museum, you may have noticed one characteristic that all these fossilized ...

Modern humans, technically called Homo sapiens, are the only surviving species of the genus Homo, which also includes extinct close cousins such as Homo neanderthalensis and Homo erectus. The oldest ...

TEMPE, Ariz. — A team of scientists from Arizona State University has uncovered a collection of fossilized teeth at a field site in Africa that are believed to belong to a newly discovered species.

A rare streak of ancient shark tooth discoveries in Rhode Island has puzzled scientists, and the public is now part of the search. The sun was warm on the little one’s back as she crouched near the ...

Scientists discovered three new mammal species that survived in Alaska’s ancient Arctic during the age of dinosaurs.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A Southwest Florida man has shared his incredible haul of fossilized ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Zelalem Bedaso, University of Dayton (THE CONVERSATION) Teeth are like tiny biological ...