A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments ...

Learn more about the ancient life that used to inhabit Mammoth Cave, and how the cave conditions were just right to help ...

Photographs (left) showing the extinct right whale partial skull with shark bite marks highlighted in red. The more complete ...

Scientists found shark teeth inside fossil whale skulls, revealing how sharks fed on whales millions of years ago.

PLATE 1. Figures 1–4: Carcharhinus amblyrhynchoides (DGCUSB/BB-115,112), upper antero-lateral, Figures 5–6: Carcharhinus brevipinna (DGCUSB/BB-136), upper tooth, Figures 7–10: Carcharhinus perezi ...

Long before modern great whites prowled the seas, a colossal shark cruised the warm shallows off northern Australia. Its story begins on a rocky shoreline near Darwin, where a few heavy disks of ...

Paleontologists discovered two new species of ancient sharks and put together research using the sharks' fossilized teeth and even a set of gills found in the depths of Mammoth Cave National Park, ...

Fossils have a way of captivating everyone, no matter their profession or the species unearthed, but there’s something about Megalodon that grips the imagination like no other. Fossilized shark teeth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student creates their model using Google Teachable Machine. Christine Wusylko, CC BY-ND Most kids have a natural curiosity about ...

Peruvian paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the 12-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric porpoise found near the country's Pacific coast. Otodus megalodon was the largest predatory fish in Earth ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Most kids have a natural curiosity about sharks − especially their sharp and abundant teeth. Our team had the idea to use the appeal of this charismatic apex predator to teach how ...