“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

A remarkably well-preserved fossil found in Spain is the most complete stegosaur skull ever discovered in Europe.

Field crews in Wyoming uncovered not one but four snake fossils so intact that their skulls, ribs, and tails lay in ...

Imagine an animal that seems to be assembled from various other creatures: it has large eyes, the round body of a rabbit, a ...

A remarkably preserved stegosaur skull is reshaping what scientists know about plated dinosaurs and their evolution across ...

This cormorant somehow manages to gulp down a fish that's even bigger than its head! How do these birds swallow their food ...

Based on the shape of the skull and teeth, scientists think this species had ... a striped hyena or small female leopard. The teeth of Bastetodon show the prehistoric mammal’s ability to ...

is the world's smallest bat and the mammal with the smallest skull size. Weighing around .07 ounces (less than a penny) and with a length of 1.14 inches, it's so small that you might confuse one ...

While the world’s tallest mammal is found in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, not all the species ... skulls, especially in the ossicones. “If we dive deeper into our analysis, we can see ...

They also have small ... a modern frog skull (Credit: Brittany M Hance/ Smithsonian) Named after the world's most iconic frog, Kermitops gratus, is sadly no longer an existing species but has ...

Guillermo Navalón At first glance, the skull of Navaornis appears to be similar to that of a small modern-day pigeon. However, investigations revealed that the species belongs to a group of early ...