Newly discovered ancient apex predator had knife-sharp teeth and bone-crushing jaws
What has the body of a dog, the face of a cat, and jaws powerful enough to potentially crush the bones of an elephant? Meet ...
Near perfect skull of apex predator reveals its 'meat cleaving bite'
Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...
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Did You Know: You Shouldn't Feed Cooked Bones To Strays As They Can Cut Their Intestines
When bones are cooked, they become brittle and can break into sharp pieces when chewed. These sharp fragments can: Cause ...
A Florida Sink Hole Swallowed These Animals 500,000 Years Ago—Now Their Bones Reveal a Lost World
More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.
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Human-like Teeth Grown in Pigs Could Make Dental Implants a Thing of the Past
In the Tufts study, the bioengineered teeth developed these ligament-like connections, a promising sign that they could one ...
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The Strongest and Weirdest Teeth Seen in the Animal Kingdom
Whether you’re talking about sharks, crocodiles, lions, or even velociraptors, some of the most fearsome traits of these predators involve their rows of sharp, crushing, or jagged teeth. Only ...
500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...