The contentious fossil of a jaw fragment was apparently collected by miners working at the Sidi Chennane phosphate mines in Morocco, in rock that is 66 to 72 million years old. Nick Longrich at ...

The newly discovered fossil is thought to belong to the same ... Getty Images Scientists in China have uncovered a fossilized jaw fragment of a newly identified, extinct cat species that was ...

The fossil was found by a resident near Scotchtown, New York, who noticed a piece of a mastodon jaw protruding from the topsoil, according to the New York State Museum. The homeowner saw two teeth ...

A jaw-dropping, prehistoric discovery was recently made in the backyard of a New York home. A complete mastodon jaw fossil was found in the backyard of a residence near Scotchtown, New York, the first ...

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 ...

Teams from the museum and State University of New York Orange unearthed the jaw, along with a piece of toe bone and a rib fragment. The fossils will now undergo scientific analysis and be ...

scans of the remains to verify whether the 72.1 to 66 million-year-old jaw is real after finding a number of discrepancies that indicate it is a fake. If this fossil is indeed a forgery ...