Our teeth evolved from fish ‘body armor’ over 460 million years, scientists discover
Artist’s making of Astraspis and Megalograptuswhich both had sensory exoskeletons. (Image credit: Brian Engh) Our delicate teeth initially developed from the “body armor” of extinct fish that lived 465 million…
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‘A set of large teeth sticking out of the ground’: Scientists reveal ancient hypercarnivore discovered in Egyptian desert
The newly found hypercarnivore types Bastetodon syrtos lived about 30 million years earlier. (Image credit: Ahmad Morsi) A skull found in the Egyptian desert comes from a never-before-seen pinnacle predator…
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Fossilized Teeth Highlight Theropod Dinosaur Diversity in Prehistoric East Sussex
A number of groups of meat-eating dinosaurs– tyrannosaurs, spinosaurs and members of the Velociraptor household– stalked what is now the Bexhill-on-Sea area in East Sussex, England, roughly 135 million years…
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