Scientists have discovered the oldest human face in Western Europe, potentially re-writing the story of human evolution.

A cache of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools uncovered in Tanzania suggest ancient human ancestors were capable of critical ...

Only vertebrate animals have real teeth, though some invertebrates have hard tooth-like plates they use to eat. One of the earliest creatures with teeth were conodonts, an eel-like creature that first ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery.

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

We think regular meat consumption was one of the main drivers of brain growth and evolution in hominins, because animal ...

With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean’s great ...

Snakes are exclusively carnivorous, meaning that they only eat other animals — and in some cases ... clearly identifiable snake fossils date to the Middle Jurassic (174.1 to 163.5 million years ago).

Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing fossilized teeth and jawbone ... that weighed about 1.3 kilograms, or 2.9 pounds. The anatomy of the animal's limbs and ...