A 146,000-year-old skull, nicknamed thedragon man, has long intrigued scientists. Discovered in the 1930s in Harbin, China, ...

An exceptionally preserved skull, discovered in northeastern Spain, sheds new light on the evolution of stegosaurs. This rare ...

Is that a real thing?" It sure is. Let's start with the anatomy lesson. The skull is not one solid bone. There are 22 separate bones, and each one is divided into several sections. There are also ...

The dinosaur skeletons, found hidden in a museum collection in Mongolia, is an ancestor of the mighty tyrannosaurs.

What Is the Skull Made Of? The skull, also known as the cranium, is the group of bones that forms the head. While many people think of the skull as a single structure, it’s actually made up of ...

“We’re now gaining a complete picture of their skull anatomy, which is great for figuring out how T. rex bit with enough force to lift several big pick-up trucks.” This nearly ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

“We thought that this part of the skull would be the best candidate for determining relationships between food type and anatomy.” For example, because hyenas crush bone while consuming their prey, it ...

And, rather than promoting the diversification of life on land, these changes to skull anatomy actually restricted the evolution of tetrapod skulls. Tetrapods evolved from fish and were the ...

a professor of anatomy and paleontology at Ohio University who was not involved in the research. “The skull is always the prize simply because so much important information is in the head ...