By studying proteins preserved in teeth, researchers determined the sex of four Paranthropus robustus individuals that lived ...

A cutting-edge technique for analyzing fossil tooth enamel is revealing remarkable new information about 2 million-year-old ...

The massive megalodon was not hunting only large marine mammals such as whales as researchers widely thought, a new study of ...

Molecular evidence from a 2-million-year-old southern African hominid species indicates sex and genetic differences in P. robustus.

A new study from the University of Chicago suggests our sensitive teeth may be an evolutionary leftover that once helped our ...

Scientists have successfully extracted ancient proteins from two-million-year-old teeth, a breakthrough providing previously unobtainable details on ...

long — the size of a human hand. The superpredator’s teeth — abundant in the fossil record — are what McCormack and his colleagues used to conduct a geochemical analysis, unlocking fresh ...

A fossilized elephant skull found in the Kashmir Valley is reshaping how scientists understand an ancient giant’s past.

Learn how a study of fossilized teeth has changed what we thought we knew about megalodon’s diet.

Researchers have extracted 2 million-year-old protein remains from ancient pre-human teeth to reveal biological sex and ...