For years, it was known as the Puntledge River fossil. From its discovery in 1988 by a father-daughter duo, right up to the ...

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

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

Buried deep in a South African cave, 2.2 million-year-old teeth may hold the genetic signature of a mysterious human relative ...

Scientists previously assumed the giant, prehistoric sharks mostly feasted on whales, but it turns out they probably weren’t ...

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

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 ...

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

They gained fresh clues into how Otodus megalodon met its "vast" appetite through state-of-the-art analysis of zinc detected ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence suggesting that human tooth sensitivity—those sharp jolts from a cold drink or a sudden ...