About 500 million years ago, not a single creature had a skull. Over time, these bony plates evolved into the structural marvels that vertebrates—animals with spinal cords, aka you, me, and your pug, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter’s skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago’s Field Museum.

A 307-million-year-old skull discovered in Canada may have belonged to one of the earliest known vegetarian animals, scientists say. Paleontologists - scientists who study fossils - found the skull ...

The ELTE Eötvös Loránd University is home to the skulls of more than 150 dog breeds and other animals. To make this unique collection accessible to all, researchers digitized the skulls of 431 dogs, ...

A 10,500-year-old skull of wild cattle on a stake found in northern Germany may reveal one of Europe’s earliest burial rituals.

It was a spine-tingling discovery. Fossil hunters might’ve just made the find of a lifetime — the skull of a supersized dinosaur from “hell” with a swordlike horn protruding from its head, per a study ...

AUSTINTOWN — When Stephanie Hughes was 8 years old, she found the skull of a seagull near her property. From that day on, she was hooked. Hughes, an Ohio certified volunteer naturalist, presented ...

Can you tell how closely related you are to some animal species by looking at skulls? You might share some characteristics with a cousin such as eye color or height. Can you tell how closely related ...

Neanderthals appear to have carried them into the cave in separate visits. The time period, researchers think, is possibly ...

Sensitive hearing may have evolved in mammal ancestors far earlier than scientists once believed. By modeling how sound moved through the skull of Thrinaxodon, a 250-million-year-old mammal ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is helping scientists understand a little bit more about the mysterious ...