A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to ...

A mislabelled fossil, forgotten and sitting in a museum drawer for decades is actually more special than previously thought. The skull fossil belongs to an ancient species of saber-toothed cat that ...

"Those upper canines were extremely efficient but also break very easily." ...

University of California, Berkeley researchers studying fossils found in a museum collection are now helping to clarify how ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Tens of thousands of years ago, dire wolves hunted ground sloths and camels while herds of gigantic ...

Learn about a surprise find of an early saber-toothed cat skull in a museum drawer, revealing how the teeth of ancient cats evolved. Fossils of a saber-toothed cat that roamed North America more than ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A prehistoric saber-toothed cat once roamed what is now the Gulf Coast ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period. These land-dwelling creatures would later evolve into mammals, but their ...

Important scientific finds don't always come in the biggest, buzziest packages. Sometimes new discoveries come in little ugly rocks. Such is the case of a 6-centimeter-wide, nondescript mass of bone ...

A young visitor to Badlands National Park made an extraordinary find. Seven-year-old Kylie Ferguson discovered the fossilized skull of an ancient saber-toothed predator. Experts identified the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist’s rendering of what the early saber-toothed cat, ‘Adelphailurus kansensis,’ might have looked like in its heyday 5 ...