A fossil once hailed as evidence of a unique mosasaur species, Xenodens calminechari, may be a forgery, a new study claims.

A new study casts doubt on the authenticity of the Xenodens calminechari fossil, once thought to be groundbreaking discovery, ...

Citizen science is evolving in classrooms, as students contribute to understanding the ancient ecology of sharks through ...

A tooth unearthed by a seven-year-old boy at a fossil festival has been identified as being a rare find from an ancient mammal. James, from Wareham in Dorset found the tooth in sand brought for ...

A “serrated blade” found sticking from a rock on Isle of Wight in the UK has been identified as a shark tooth that could be 100 million years old, experts say. Wight Coast Fossils photo A ...

The biggest indication that the fossil is forged are the teeth, says Sharpe. Each mosasaur tooth corresponds to a pit in the jaw. “Even if the fossil is very poor quality, you can still count ...

Amateur fossil hunters dream of finding the ancient and the rare. One little girl spoke it into existence. Molly Sampson, nine, was on a Christmas Day visit to Calvert Beach in Maryland, and told ...

Fossils can be broadly divided into body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossil – The remains of part (or all) of an actual organism. In the kits, the trilobite (2), brachiopod (3), dinosaur bone (4), ...

Trace fossils are imprints left in sediment by an organism - either during its life (e.g. footprints, insect nests, and tooth pits on the bones of prey) or during its death - that become rock.

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and ...