A large-scale investigation of carnivoran brain diversity, providing a unified description of folding patterns, their relationship to behaviour and ecology, and the foundation for future ...

Sponges are among Earth's most ancient animals, but exactly when they evolved has long puzzled scientists. Genetic ...

A 6,000-year-old skeleton that survived a lion attack has been found, providing exceptional evidence of prehistoric community ...

Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

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For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

The Roman-era skeleton of a young woman once believed to have belonged to the earliest known black Briton is likely to have originated in southern England, new research shows. Archaeologists have been ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

The rockhead, or deep-pitted, poacher may use its ribs to beat the inside of its head cavity to communicate with other ...

Fifty years after a fossil skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis was unearthed in Ethiopia, we know so much more about how this iconic species lived and died. When you purchase through links on our ...

Archaeologists say they've unexpectedly found a huge Stone Age cremation pyre in southern-central Africa. The discovery is helping them understand the history of cremation.

Dwelling around 167 million years ago, the chimeric reptile was discovered along with 70 other prehistoric species.