Y ears ago, in a dry riverbed in Brazil, paleontologists discovered a strikingly odd fossilized jawbone. Unusually twisted, ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ...

"It's a really strange animal, and the weird twist in the jaw drove us crazy trying to figure it out." ...

Scientists have described Tanyka amnicola, a newly identified species of prehistoric creature that lived 275 million years ...

When the identification of a fossil animal is completely based on a single bone, the design of the bone is important. Another Permian animal with no complete body akin only to the low jaws has a ...

Scientists found a jaw so bizarre they assumed it was broken - they were very wrong.

The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of ...

Learn how Permian-era fossils from Brazil led researchers to a tetrapod with a twisted jaw from a lineage once thought ...

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A BIZARRE ancient sea creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth has been uncovered. The creature’s mouth was so ...