Not Sharks. Not T. Rex. Scientists Just Confirmed the Sharpest Teeth in All of Natural History Belonged to a Tiny Ancient Creature Most People Have Never Heard OfScientific research revealed that ancient eel-like creatures called conodonts possessed highly effective cutting structures in their teeth,...
01 May, 2026, 06.29 PM IST
The tiny microbes behind one of the best-preserved fossils ever foundAmong some of the most spectacular fossils unearthed are those found in strange locations, and new research is now showing that the way the...
16 Apr, 2026, 03.21 PM IST
How A 407-Million-Year-Old Fossil From Scotland Revealed One Of Earth’s Oldest Plant-Fungus PartnershipsA remarkable fossil from Scotland, dating back 407 million years, reveals a previously unknown fungus, Rugososporomyces lavoisierae, living...
15 Mar, 2026, 06.43 PM IST
Bigger than a blue whale: 11-year-old's discovery of 6.5-foot jawbone reveals Earth's largest marine reptileA young girl's fossil find in England has led to the discovery of Ichthyotitan severnensis. This ancient marine reptile was enormous, compa...
15 Mar, 2026, 12.13 PM IST
Scientists Unearth Frozen Dinosaur Eggs Hidden Beneath Siberia’s Ice, Changing How Much Know About Prehistoric LifeScientists unearthed 70-million-year-old dinosaur eggs in Siberia's frozen tundra. This rare find offers new insights into dinosaur reprodu...
14 Mar, 2026, 03.47 PM IST
What Workers Found Beneath a Los Angeles School… Scientists Say It Sat There for 9 Million YearsConstruction at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles unearthed a massive fossil deposit. Millions of marine specimens from two distinct anc...
13 Mar, 2026, 12.14 PM IST
Towering Ancient Fossils May Represent Entirely New Form of LifeA 150-year-old fossil, Prototaxites, once thought to be a giant fungus or plant, is now believed to be an entirely extinct lineage of compl...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.36 PM IST
What If Dinosaurs Had Spikes Like Porcupines? This Fossil Suggests They DidScientists found a new dinosaur species, Haolong dongi, in China. This dinosaur had unique hollow spikes growing from its skin. This is the...
26 Feb, 2026, 03.30 PM IST
Not Sharks or Dinosaurs: The Tiny Ancient Creature With Earth’s Sharpest TeethTiny marine creatures called conodonts, extinct for millions of years, held the title for the sharpest teeth. These eel-like animals had mi...
09 Feb, 2026, 03.49 PM IST
Shovel-Tusked Elephants’ Teeth Puzzle Solved by PaleontologistsShovel-tusked elephants, once an evolutionary puzzle, are now understood to have used their unique tusks and teeth to efficiently process s...
08 Feb, 2026, 02.48 PM IST
The sharpest teeth in history didn’t belong to giants — they belonged to something tinyContrary to popular belief, some of history's sharpest teeth belonged to tiny animals, not giants. Scientific research reveals that tooth s...
05 Feb, 2026, 09.08 PM IST
Scientists reveal 280-million-year-old fossil may have been partly forgedA recent discovery published in the journal Palaeontology suggests that a 280-million-year-old fossil, known as Tridentinosaurus antiquus, ...
17 Feb, 2024, 01.52 PM IST
Paleontologists discover 1st 'unmistakable' caecilian fossils of amphibian-like animal29 Jan, 2023, 10.35 PM IST
New shark species with 'spaceship-shaped' teeth discoveredUnlike its gargantuan cousin the megalodon, Galagadon nordquistae is only about 12 to 18 inches long and is related to modern-day carpet sh...
22 Jan, 2019, 02.08 PM IST
Climate change may be worse than believed: StudyThe current period of climate change may be unparalleled over the last 100 million years, warn scientists who discovered a flaw in the way ...
26 Oct, 2017, 10.43 PM IST
- Our oldest known ancestor had a huge mouth and no anus
London, Jan 31 (IANS) A microscopic, bag-like sea creature with a large mouth and no anus, which lived about 540 million years ago, could b...
31 Jan, 2017, 07.37 PM IST
- Cooling oceans helped biodiversity 500 mn yrs ago
A new study has revealed for the first time a link between a cooling climate and increasing biodiversity in ancient oceans 500 million year...
03 Sep, 2008, 01.35 PM IST