AUSTIN (KXAN) — A fossilized skull found on the coast of Texas is expanding on the understanding of where the saber-toothed cat roamed tens of thousands of years ago, according to researchers at the ...
This fossil looks like a lumpy, rounded rock with a couple of exposed teeth that are a little worse for wear, having been submerged and tumbled along the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for thousands of ...
When a Mississippi Delta couple went to spend time on the Mississippi River recently, they expected to find fossils from long-extinct animals. After all, they find them all the time. However, what ...
Scientists have been extracting huge fossils from the La Brea tar pits since 1913. Many of the animals lived during the Ice Age, as far back as 50,000 years ago. The tar pits have preserved an entire ...
SPECIAL TO THE T&D Between 20 and 60 million years of geology are captured in this strata of limestone along the walls of the Giant Cement quarry near Harleyville. The largest cache of Ice Age fossils ...
A mechanical analysis of the distinctive canines of California's saber-toothed cat (Smilodon fatalis) suggests that the baby tooth that preceded each saber stayed in place for years to stabilize the ...
Have you ever wondered what secrets a set of ancient jaws can hold? Imagine stumbling upon the fossilized grin of a cat that prowled the Earth 20 million years ago. One look at those teeth, and you ...