Paleontologists have long suspected that our teeth evolved from bumpy structures called odontodes on the exoskeletons of prehistoric fish—but they didn’t understand exactly what these bumps ...

Languages: English, Spanish A study of a bizarre prehistoric bird's fossilized ... that the bird used its long beak and strong teeth to hunt fish. But no one had ever found a specimen with ...

Whenever Yara Haridy, a paleontologist at the University of Chicago, shows off the fossils she works with, people are often ...

“Longipteryx is one of my favorite fossil birds ... preserved stomach contents, and fish tend to preserve well. Plus, these fish-eating birds had lots of teeth, all the way along their beaks ...

proposing instead that its impressive teeth stuck out sideways from its snout—like a warthog. Growing to more than 8½ feet long on average, the prehistoric fish were the largest salmonid to ...

18—ALBUQUERQUE — A new species and genus of a toothy prehistoric fish has been ... with what looked like randomly scattered teeth. It turned out to be a fish skull of a previously undiscovered ...

This was a discovery they could really sink their teeth into. A rare smalltooth sawfish, considered a “prehistoric” shark ... Legally, the endangered fish must be released.

While the teeth and bones of the fossil were relatively “poorly preserved,” outlines of multiple fins allowed researchers to identify the prehistoric fish as a species new to science.