In 1996, archaeologists hurriedly conducted excavations at a 13th-century coastal fishing site on Santa Catarina Island in southern Brazil before construction for a condo development began.

Signs of temporarily delayed tooth development in the skull of an ancient Homo species youth spark debate about the origins of humanlike growth.

The location of the 8cm (3 inch) fossil was not widely known A tooth that belonged to an ancient giant shark has been stolen ... It was one of two Megalodon teeth located in the Unesco World ...

The earliest shark-like teeth we have come from an Early Devonian (410-million-year-old) fossil belonging to an ancient fish called Doliodus problematicus. Described as the 'least shark-like shark', ...

would probably not be the first place you would expect an ancient shark species to have been discovered. But the world is full of surprises, as scientists recently unc o vered teeth from a 300 ...

Analysis of chemicals of fossilised teeth suggests that the giant shark ... That puts the megalodon at odds with other ancient shark species that swam alongside it and were only slightly warmer ...

The shark-tooth study was published in the journal Nature Communications on Tuesday. Teeth are some of the best-preserved remnants of ancient sharks, partially thanks to the fluoride in their enamel.

Along the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay where more than 30 miles of cliffs – some as high as 100 feet – generations of people have been finding fossils, especially shark teeth that date ...

A prehistoric food fight may have spelled the end for the megalodon, the largest shark that ever lived. A study of the ocean giant's fossil teeth suggests it had to compete for food with another ...

The only fossils that remain of the megalodon — the largest known shark ever to exist — are its human-hand-sized teeth. The prehistoric shark, which roamed Earth's oceans for over 20 million ...