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 ...

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

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Saber-toothed tigers may have had two sets of their famous fangs for a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...