Mantell’s early collection consists of many fossils from the Chalk of the Upper Cretaceous of Sussex, including fish such as chondrichthyans (represented by shark teeth) and actinopterygians.The first ...

Dinosaur teeth found with the help of a retired quarry worker have revealed how the fearsome tyrannosaur once roamed Bexhill-on-Sea. Research led by the University of Southampton found that several ...

“Many years later I started work at Ashdown and began looking for fossils. I’m happy with tiny fish scales or huge thigh bones, although the preservation of the dinosaur teeth really stands ...

Exquisitely preserved fossils ... the Cretaceous period appear to solve a long-standing mystery around how it hunted and where it fits into the shark evolutionary tree. Fossil teeth from sharks ...

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), ...

The tyrannosaur teeth in the Ashdown Brickworks turned out to be fortuitous find, as researchers say the dinosaur group hadn’t previously been identified in sediments of this age and region. These ...

The discovery pushes back the evolution of advanced pterosaurs and also supports a surprising new setting for their evolution.

“There is research noting a possible connection between the loss of teeth in some fossil salientian groups and the emergence and diversification of ants and termites during the Early Cretaceous ...

A ferocious-looking fossil fish has been unearthed from a remarkable ... is beautifully preserved in three dimensions. With its big teeth and eyes, it gives the impression it is about to launch ...

But they were still affected. Fossil teeth show that the asteroid strike at the end of the Cretaceous killed off many of the largest species of shark. Only the smallest and deep-water species that fed ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the ... long-necked and toothy marine reptiles terrorized fish, ammonites, and mollusks in the seas; pterosaurs and ...