By Will Dunham Feb 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have unearthed in Canada's province of Nova Scotia the skull of a creature ...

A 307-million-year-old fossil reveals that some of Earth’s earliest land animals were already experimenting with a ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto ...

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, ...

Learn more about Tyrannoroter heberti, a football-shaped land vertebrate who may have enjoyed snacking on plants.

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted ...

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 ...

Dogs have a very special bond with humans. They were the first mammal to be domesticated, and we have fashioned them into ...