... Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator ... fossil of a horse collected at the site in excavations spanning the last century, characteristics such as the shape of the teeth ...
By studying fossilized teeth, researchers have been able to learn much more about the eating habits of early hominids.
... ), paleoanthopologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported fossil teeth of Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki ...
Mapping mountains and valleys of fossil teeth can shed light on ancient humans' diets.
Tiny fossilized teeth excavated from an Indian open-pit coal mine could be the oldest Asian ... them, Kay said. The teeth were dated by identifying microscopic marine plankton fossils of known age ...
... used an analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes extracted from the fossil teeth of three varieties of mammals from Ellesmere ... Science Foundation. An analysis of oxygen isotopes from the fossil teeth helped determine seasonal changes ...
... paleontologist Larisa DeSantis, researchers examined fossil teeth from mammals at two sites representing ... collaborators analyzed enamel samples from 115 fossil teeth. For two of the specimens she took ...
TAMBA, Japan, June 21 (UPI) -- Museum officials in Japan say fossilized teeth from an ancestor of the tyrannosaurus have been found in the Hyogo Prefecture.
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: An analysis of tooth scratches on fossilized teeth reveals how duck-billed dinosaurs ate — and hints at what they ate as well.
Tiny scratches in the fossilized teeth of Edmontosaurus suggest that these large herbivores may have had an unusual way of chewing .
... that keep growing into adulthood, simply separating the fossils into two groups by size may not do the trick ... for continued growth using subtle clues from fossilized teeth. "Teeth fill in over time," said Binder. "In young ...
... tested the reliability of expert identification versus computer analysis in reconstructing fossils. The investigation, based on fossil teeth from extinct vertebrates, found that the most specialized ...
... tested the reliability of expert identification versus computer analysis in reconstructing fossils. The investigation, based on fossil teeth from extinct vertebrates, found that the most specialized ...
... , shows that peradectids, a family of marsupials known from fossils mostly found in North America and Eurasia, are a sister group ... an evolutionary relationship. Some predictions about that relationship could have been made from fossil teeth, Bloch said, "but this provides a much stronger ...
... hastalis." Circumstantial evidence also supports this verdict: fossil teeth from Cosmopolitodus are common in the rock sequences ... in prehistoric seas. Shark teeth are among the most common vertebrate remains in the fossil record, yet ...
