A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments have done exactly that, preserving a moment of violence from roughly five ...

It’s hard to picture now, but long before the Sahara became a sea of sand, it was an actual sea—a shallow, tropical lagoon teeming with life. Today, in Egypt’s Western Desert, where the heat warps the ...

The origin story of whales — how land-dwelling mammals returned to the sea — has long been pieced together from fossils scattered across the ancient Tethys Ocean. Now, a new discovery from western ...

Call it an unfinished story, but with a plot that's a grabber. It's the tale of an ancient land mammal making its way back to the sea, becoming the forerunner of today's whales. In doing so, it lost ...

Researchers have uncovered a remarkable fossil site in a remote part of Canada's Northwest Territories, offering ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly discovered fossils have given scientists their first real glimpse of when Earth made a crucial transition from plants and unrecognizably simple animals to the complex creatures ...