New fossil research shows that teeth originally evolved as sensory tissue embedded in the armored exoskeletons of ancient ...

With a mouth full of teeth and a hunger for blood, the lamprey is one of nature’s most disturbing invaders. In this video, we ...

Armored jawless fish like Astraspis and Eriptychius and ancient arthropods like Anatolepis coexisted in the muddy shallow seas of the Ordovician period, which occurred between 485.4 million and ...

Known as a living fossil, the frilled shark has retained some of the features of its ancient ancestors ... Certain species of the jawless fish can grow to 4 feet long, while others are only ...

Scientists estimate that the first generation of reptiles evolved between 320 and 310 million years ago, this group was later dominated by dinosaurs which paleontologists say they evolved on Earth ...

The team scanned dozens of ancient and modern creatures and focused ... from the late Cambrian to the Middle Ordovician. That’s when a jawless fish called Eriptychius swam through prehistoric ...

Egypt has announced the “significant” discovery of three ancient tombs dating to the New Kingdom period (1550–1070 B.C.), found on the West Bank of Luxor in the Draa Abul Naga area.

first going viral and then creating a tsunami of public response ranging from shock to sympathy.The viral photos of the jawless alligator are so much more than an oddity of wildlife—they are a ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are still charting how ...

first evolved as sensory tissue in the armoured exoskeletons of ancient fish. Paleontologists have long believed that teeth evolved from the bumpy structures on this armour, but their purpose wasn ...

The authors compared the amount of radiocarbon in each sample with the amount present in a standard reference that is used to represent modern atmospheric CO 2 — carbon derived from ancient ...