When thinking of fierce predators of the past, it's difficult not to imagine dinosaurs, considering theropods are well known for having blade-like teeth with serrated cutting edges used for biting and ripping their prey.
Paleontology & Fossils
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The carcass of a large long-necked dinosaur in the Junggar Basin in northwestern China served as food for several other dinosaurs, Tübingen paleontologists say, citing tooth marks on the bones and several dinosaur teeth, ...
Archaeology
Oct 22, 2020
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A team of scientists led from Uppsala University have described the earliest known example of dentary bone with two rows of cusps on molars and double-rooted teeth. The new findings offer insight into mammal tooth evolution, ...
Archaeology
Oct 13, 2020
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A milk tooth found in the vicinity of Riparo del Broion on the Berici Hills in the Veneto region bears evidence of one of the last Neanderthals in Italy. This small canine tooth belonged to a child between 11 and 12 that ...
Archaeology
Sep 17, 2020
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A new method for estimating the biological sex of human remains based on reading protein sequences rather than DNA has been used to study an archeological site in Northern California. The protein-based technique gave superior ...
Archaeology
Jul 20, 2020
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A report in the journal Current Biology on July 9 offers a detailed description of the first nearly complete skeleton of an extinct large dolphin, discovered in what is now South Carolina. The 15-foot-long dolphin (Ankylorhiza ...
Archaeology
Jul 9, 2020
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A new study led by researchers from the University of Bristol has shown that not all saber-tooths were fearsome predators.
Archaeology
Jun 25, 2020
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Big theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus and Ceratosaurus ate pretty much everything—including each other, according to a new study, "High Frequencies of Theropod Bite Marks Provide Evidence for Feeding, Scavenging, and ...
Archaeology
May 27, 2020
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Home to some of the richest evidence for the behavior and culture of the earliest clearly modern humans, the submerged shelf called the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (PAP) once formed its own ecosystem. Co-author Curtis Marean, Ph.D., ...
Archaeology
May 22, 2020
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A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history and geography of earless seals that graced Australia's shores three million years ago.
Archaeology
Apr 3, 2020
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