(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Wusylko, University of Florida and Pavlo Antonenko, University of Florida ...

One boy may have made a remarkable prehistoric discovery during his vacation in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Xander, a 5-year-old from Virginia, found what appeared to be a rather large tooth ...

Shark teeth have long fascinated humans. From your average beach-comber stumbling across one embedded in the sand, to a paleontologist trying to determine their ...

While the land and underground passageways of Mammoth Cave National Park are now traversed by tourists, guides and the occasional bat, millions of years ago the region was more popular among aquatic ...

Deep inside a pitch-black cave in Kentucky, researchers discovered a new species of ancient sea creature, according to the National Park Service. It left little to find, just strange teeth embedded in ...

Could new populations of seals and porpoises attract the descendants of some of the large shark species that were thriving in ...

Learn how whale fossils and embedded shark teeth reveal feeding behavior and scavenging in the Early Pliocene North Sea ecosystem. Sharks once fed on whales in the North Sea and left their teeth ...

Great white sharks' ancestors were attacking and eating whales in the North Sea five million years ago, reveals new research. Detailed analysis of two fossilized whale skulls dating back around five ...

Bill Eibner and Brea Wear were on a gravel (sand) bar searching for fossils and artifacts on the Cottonwood River just east ...