(Heming Zhang via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite. The ...

Tooth enamel is more than 95% inorganic, and the vast majority of everything we see in the vertebrate fossil record is teeth, or has teeth. Building off this realization, we decided to investigate ...

A bizarre spatula-billed pterosaur with ridiculous amounts of teeth has been discovered in ... Pterosaurs are relatively rare in the fossil record because of the fragility of their thin-walled ...

Most of the animal fossils in museum collections were formed from hard body parts such as bones, teeth and shells ... and small fossil show us the oldest example of a fossilised vertebrate ...

We used powerful imaging methods to peer inside a 380-million-year-old fossil called Elpistostege from Quebec, Canada, to reveal the oldest ... teeth from Silurian age rocks in Guizhou province ...

By building a mathematical model using the relative lengths of molar teeth, we were able to track evolutionary changes in prenatal growth rates in the fossil record. Based on our model ...

A 319-million-year-old fossilised fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example ... Most of the animal fossils in museum collections were formed ...

By building a mathematical model using the relative lengths of molar teeth, we were able to track evolutionary changes in prenatal growth rates in the fossil record. Based on our model, it looks as if ...