Dinosaurs may have vanished millions of years ago, but their teeth still carry a message from Earth’s distant past. A team of scientists from the Universities of Göttingen, Mainz, and Bochum has shown ...

Trapped in the enamel of fossilized dinosaur teeth is a fascinating glimpse into the Earth's atmospheric past stretching back 150 million years. A recent study shows that carbon dioxide levels back ...

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history museum, you may have noticed one characteristic that all these fossilized ...

A previously unexploited source of information is now throwing new light on the Earth's climate during the age of dinosaurs. Fossilized dinosaur teeth show that concentrations of carbon dioxide in the ...

At first glance, it looked like just another dinosaur fossil, but a closer inspection revealed something unexpected, ...

A previously untapped source of data sheds new light on the climate of the early Earth: fossilized dinosaur teeth show that the atmosphere during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago ...

A fossil skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth embedded shows evidence of a forceful attack, helping scientists better understand ...

The Alabama Museum of Natural History hosts fossil hunting events at a privately owned creek a 50-mile drive southwest from the University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. The hadrosaur tooth was ...

Our planet is several billion years old—a number so vast it’s almost impossible to truly comprehend. In all that time, ...

A baby dinosaur fossil hidden inside solid rock for nearly 100 million years is now rewriting South Korea’s fossil record. Revealed using advanced CT scans at the University of Texas at Austin, the ...