Officials found the fossil of a giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package on a bus in the mountains of Peru on Tuesday. The fossil, weighing some 19 pounds (8.7 kilograms), was found in the cargo hold of the bus, which was headed for the capital of Lima, and had been sent on the bus company's package service. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

American scientists who announced one of the most significant fossil finds in the Arctic have set their sights on the North again, in hopes of finding more discoveries that could further bridge the gap between fish and land animal. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Australian scientists have found a remarkable 380 million year old fossil placoderm fish with intact embryo and mineralised umbilical cord. Video included. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

This still unidentified fish was found with human teeth - staggering marine biologists who are still puzzled by this creature. There is even a video. picked by bingo 9 months ago

Scientists have discovered a highly unusual fish with fangs made of bone.

Dubbed the "Dracula" fish, the creature is about 17mm (0.7 inches) long and has been found in only one Burmese stream. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University have suggested that frequent drinking of white wine may damage the teeth.

The effect is pH-mediated was exacerbated by brushing the teeth soon after drinking wine. Red wines were noted to be much less damaging to teeth, and the researchers suggest that the effect of white wine might be mitigated by the ingestion of calcium-rich cheese. picked by bingo 5 months ago

The large and congested metropolitan area of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas is also home to one of the most important sites for dinosaur fossils in the country. Paleontologists have descended to the fossil site and recently made a major discovery of a nearly 100 million year old crocodile skull with two and a half inch long teeth. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

The Hobbit, the tiny human fossil found in a cave on an Indonesian island in 2003 and claimed as a new species, was a modern human whose teeth had been worked on by a dentist, possibly in the 1930s, according to a scientist whose new book is set to inflame debate. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Australian scientists say the recent discovery of a fossil fish has rewritten the record of evolution of land mammals. picked by robfouryqr 3 years ago

New research has provided the first detailed look at the internal head skeleton of Tiktaalik roseae, the 375-million-year-old fossil animal that represents an important intermediate step in the evolutionary transition from fish to animals that walked on land. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

The fiercest reptile ever to terrorise the oceans has been identified from a fossil on a frozen Arctic island.

The huge pliosaur, dubbed The Monster, dated from 150 million years ago and boasted 60 dagger-like teeth the size of cucumbers, which it used to rip chunks out of prey. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Woman goes to dentist to have 3 teeth pulled. Instead they pulled 16 of her teeth! To make matters worse the clinic tried to cover up their mistake by altering her records. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct when it disappeared from fossil records 80 million years ago. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Spanish researchers have reportedly unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

French fossil hunters have pinned down the age of Toumai, which they contend is the remains of the earliest human ever found, at between 6.8 and 7.2 million years old. The fossil was discovered in the Chadian desert in 2001 and an intense debate ensued over whether the nearly complete cranium, pieces of jawbone and teeth belonged to one of our earliest ancestors. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Discovery of an exceptional fossil specimen in southeastern Morocco that preserves evidence of the animal’s soft tissues has solved a paleontological puzzle about the origins of an extinct group of bizarre slug-like animals with rows of mineralized armor plates on their backs. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

For a team of paleontologists interested in fossil mammals, the Fayum district of Egypt summons an impressive history that extends much further back in time than the Sphinx. The latest issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology reports the discovery of six new bat species dating to around 35 million years ago, which sheds new light on the early evolution of bats. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Fully functioning teeth have been grown from stem cells planted in the mouths of mice, scientists said today.

The researchers in Japan hope the breakthrough could proved not only to be an important step towards being able to replace teeth in humans but eventually replacing organs, lost or damaged as a result of disease, injury or aging. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Researchers have discovered the first fossil orchid, a 15 to 20-million-year-old pollen specimen encased in amber, in the Dominican Republic. It suggests that the first orchids bloomed about 84 million years ago. picked by misswinkle 3 years ago

Norwegian researchers have discovered a second rare fossil in the Arctic of a pliosaur, a giant reptile described by experts as the "T-Rex of the oceans". picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago