Horse fossils are abundant and widespread across North America. Scientists often use their long history to illustrate how species evolve in response to a changing environment.
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Groundbreaking study demonstrates how behaviour drives long-term evolution over 20 million years.
Using a new equation based on today’s primates, scientists can take a few molar teeth from an extinct fossil species and reconstruct exactly how fast their offspring grew during gestation.
Spectacular finds of the world’s oldest jawed fishes from China push back the origins of jaws and teeth, and suggest how limbs might have evolved.
Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species, swam the oceans long before humans existed. Its teeth are all that’s left, and they tell a story of an apex predator that vanished.
A terrifying sight in ancient waters, the megalodon shark was once the most feared creature in the sea.
Stone artifacts and a fossil tooth point to Homo sapiens living at Grotte Mandrin 54,000 years ago, at a time when Neanderthals were still living in Europe.
Finding a fossil tooth embedded in bone is always great news for palaeontologists, as it is the gateway to some otherwise out-of-reach understanding of the behaviour of extinct animals.
Teeth can reveal a lot about diversity when they are reasonably well-preserved.
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Lecturer of Anthropology and Assistant Director of the Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Senior Researcher in Vertebrate Palaeontology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Ph.D. Student in Geological Sciences, University of Florida
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Distinguished Professor and Director of Thompson Earth Systems Institute (TESI), University of Florida
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeontology, Utrecht University
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Curator of Karoo Palaeontology, Iziko Museums of South Africa
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Professor of Paleoecology, University of California, Merced
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Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences & Education and Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida International University
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Archéologue, penseur et chercheur au CNRS, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
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Paleoanthropologist, Université de Bordeaux
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Archéologue et chercheuse en anthropologie, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geosciences, University of Cambridge
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Specialist in Geoscience, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
