A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer Chimpanzees live only in African rainforests and woodlands. Orangutans ...

The fossilized skull of this new dinosaur species was unearthed from the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation in Yunnan Province, southern China. The newly discovered species, named Lishulong wangi ...

The team analyzed the shape of 113 skulls and 387 jaws, measuring their likely bite force. The Formby skulls were flatter than skulls from Scotland, and their jaws had muscle attachments closer to ...

A larger and more venomous species of one of the world's deadliest spiders has been confirmed by Australian scientists. Nicknamed 'big boy', it can grow up to 9cm (3.54 inches) compared with 5cm ...

A fossilized skull of Lishulong wangi, a newly identified dinosaur species in China. Credit: Qian-Nan Zhang et al. / CC BY 4.0 A massive, well-preserved dinosaur skull discovered in southern China has ...

Kargopoulos is the lead author of a new study, led by UCT, which has further confirmed, through their skull shapes, that there are four distinct species of giraffes. It was published in the ...

A tribe refused to take back a series of ‘cursed’ skulls (Picture: Missiemuseum) A tribe in Papua New Guinea has refused to accept a series of ‘cursed’ ritual skulls made by cannibal ...

A huge dinosaur skull found in southern China appears to belong to an entirely new species, according to a group of paleontologists that studied the specimen. Paleontologists found the fossilized ...

The well-preserved skull belongs to a never-before-seen species of sauropodomorph that potentially grew up to 33 feet long. An enormous, extremely well preserved dinosaur skull unearthed in China ...

Delhi Customs/X A man was arrested by authorities at an airport in India after he was caught trying to bring a baby crocodile skull on his flight. Delhi Customs said in a statement on X that the ...

Video / Ben Cummins A skull found in the sand on a Kāpiti Coast beach likely belonged to a young woman struck by a musket ball, according to an analysis by several specialists. The discovery of ...

A cutting-edge analysis of a skull found in Turkey in 1929 proves once and for all that it is not Arsinoë IV, Cleopatra's half sister. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...