A skull is the bony bowl that protects an animal’s brain ... The dental formula of one common species, the striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis), is . The skull is small enough to hold in your palm, and ...

What can a mammal skull tell you if you find one ... Sorting out the small rodents is difficult, but in different species there are differences in the patterns of ridges and cusps formed by ...

A fossil of a newly identified animal found east of Colorado ... because I could see that it was both the skull as well as both lower jaws. From a small mammal, that's really, really rare." ...

The olinguito, a small mammal native to South ... and general anatomy of the associated skulls further hinted that the samples might represent a new species. Helgen continued his project with ...

Australian rock-wallabies are ‘little Napoleons’ when it comes to compensating for small size ... scanned the skulls of nearly 400 rock-wallaby skulls, including all 17 species to compare ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western ... It includes a partial skull with teeth, spinal column, rib cage, forelimbs, and hind limbs.

An artist's impression of the shrew-like Krusatodon kirtlingtonensis, which a new study suggests lived long and matured slowly, in contrast to modern small mammals. Maija Karala Roughly 166 ...