Emma Bernard, who curates the Museum's fossil fish collection (including fossil sharks), helps separate fact from fiction ... In fact, the word megalodon simply means 'large tooth'. These teeth can ...

Investigating this theory, the researchers used X-ray diffraction to determine the size of the crystals in the fish tooth enamel. They then took fresh teeth from black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus) ...

The Museum’s large collection of fossil fishes contains approximately 90,000 specimens ... Mantell’s early collection consists of many fossils from the Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous of Sussex, ...

A Jurassic pterosaur fossil, known to paleontologists for over 160 years, isn’t a new species. It is an odd specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri.

New evidence suggests that certain early human ancestors rarely consumed meat, adding new information to the timeline of ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Among living fossil fish, the coelacanth is the most famous ... They are highly predaceous, with long jaws and large, sharp teeth. They will attack any fish in their path, lying perfectly still ...

Our study was one of the first to date Florida coastal deposits using fossil shark teeth and a technique that looks at variations in ocean strontium. Strontium is a chemical element that occurs ...

Remarkably, fossil shark teeth are also incredibly abundant. Sharks ruled the earth's oceans for 400 million years, and every individual grows and sheds thousands of teeth in their lifetime.