Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles ...

D scans of ancient lungfish jaws reveal how early fish evolved to eat differently - offering fresh insight into vertebrate evolution.

A Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...

Scientists have found a new species of pterosaur that lived 200 million years ago along with the dinosaurs. The fossilised ...

Scientists have identified a new species of pterosaur from a fossilised jawbone discovered deep in the Arizona desert. The find, in the Grand Canyon State's Petrified Forest National Park, marks the ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

In a recent study, Associate Professor Makoto Ikeya (Department of Clinical Application) and his team of researchers successfully established a method to generate jawbone-like organoids (mini-organs) ...

On the seabed off the coast of Taiwan, a fisherman’s dredge pulled up more than just marine life. Among the animal remains was something unexpected—a thick, heavy jawbone.

Over the decades, dozens of prehistoric bone tools have been collected from caves across France and Spain. These tools were used to hunt reindeer and bison, and researchers have long suspected that ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they've called the "exoparia." The finding deepens our ...

It is still unclear as to what animal it has come from (Picture: Josh Woolliscroft) ‘I posted in a bone identification group to see if they had some answers, and the consensus is it belongs to a ...

The jaw section discovered by the Florida divers measures approximately 15 inches across, suggesting it came from a specimen that would have been around 40 feet long. The teeth embedded in the jaw, ...