Articles for tag: Ancient Life, Fossil Facts, prehistoric mammals, Saber Tooth, Weird Prehistoric Creatures

The Prehistoric Mammal With Saber Teeth and a Beak

Suhail Ahmed

Imagine staring into a skull that seems stitched together from different chapters of evolution: a turtle-like beak, a pair of tusk-like saber teeth, and the face of a distant mammal relative. The creature in question isn’t a cat, a pig, or a reptile, though at a glance you might guess all three. These were the ...

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Forgotten Arctic Fossils May Hold Clues to Mammalian Origins

Suhail Ahmed

Some of the most important clues to how mammals took hold on Earth aren’t in blockbuster skeletons – they’re in thumbnail-sized teeth tucked away in Arctic collections. In field camps perched above icy rivers and in museum drawers that sat untouched for decades, researchers are finding a different kind of headline fossil: tiny, stubborn, and ...