Smithsonian Magazine on MSN6d
A Homeowner Found Huge, Fossil Teeth While Mowing the Lawn. Then, Excavations Revealed a Complete Mastodon Jaw
The new discovery is the first of its kind in New York state for at least 11 years and appeared in a county rich with ...
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25 Million-Year-Old Mega-Shark Teeth Discovered By Amateur Fossil Hunter In Australia
The great jagged narrow-toothed shark was double the size of a great white and was so large that it feasted on whales.
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Newly Described Fossil From Wyoming Sheds Light on When Frogs and Toads Lost Their Teeth
A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...
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Fossil predator is the oldest known animal with “saber teeth”
Scientists have discovered the oldest known animal with saber teeth: a predator that lived 270 million years ago. This animal ...
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World's oldest mammal ancestor ever discovered had 'saber teeth'
Scientists have discovered the oldest known saber-toothed predator, a 270-million-year-old gorgonopsian therapsid fossil.
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Ancient saber-toothed predator found in Spain is the oldest of its kind
All gorgonopsians had daggerlike canine teeth, and species ranged widely in size. Some were as small as cats, while others were as big as polar bears. Fossils of the newly described gorgonopsian ...