As a result, teeth are the most abundant elements in the primate fossil record. Fortunately, paleontologists can use tooth morphology to identify species fairly accurately. Deep, geologic time is ...

A new study, published yesterday (May 17) in Nature Communications, identifies a tooth found in Laos as Denisovan and bridges the geographical gap. Scientists unearthed the tooth in caves within the ...

Here's the latest on what we know. The fossil tooth from Ohio used for the DNA extraction is around 13,000 years old. According to USA TODAY, Colossal harvested ancient DNA from real dire wolf ...

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The fossil is from the left side an upper jaw, Godfrey also said, adding that the size of the tooth indicated that the shark — considered by scientists to be a "transoceanic superpredator," acco ...

A jawbone fossil from a previously unknown hominin was ... and Penghu 1 was phylogenetically close. Tooth enamel revealed that Penghu 1 came from a male individual, and both Penghu 1 and Xiahe ...

A once-mysterious fossil of an early hominin that walked the Earth alongside early modern humans has now been identified as ...