The little dinosaur had been dead for roughly 100 million years before anyone thought to scan the rock it was buried in. When researchers finally did, what emerged on their screens stopped them cold.

Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

An Archaeopteryx fossil with soft tissue reveals flight features and offers fresh support for Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Researchers discover how woodpecker skull geometry keeps powerful pecks stable, allowing the birds to hammer wood thousands of times safely.

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

Woodpeckers are well known for striking tree trunks with remarkable force and precision. These birds deliver thousands of ...

Comparisons show the face size falls between a gorilla and an orangutan, with shape closer to orangutans and bonobos, and a ...

In Oklahoma’s temple of bone, science meets functional art, and flesh-eating beetles meet body parts from every continent ...

Three University of Central Florida medical students, who researched better ways to help children with cleft palates and other skull deformities, recently presented their findings to international ...

A single, scimitar-shaped bone pulled from the Sahara’s sand can look like anything until enough pieces assemble into an animal the size of a school bus. Paleontologists excavating a distant fossil ...

The Bone Museum is tucked away in Brooklyn, quietly educating visitors about skeletal anatomy while the rest of the city goes about its business completely unaware. Glass cases filled with skulls ...

The Bone Museum is a collection that proves New Yorkers will make a museum out of absolutely anything, and we’re all better off for it. Glass cases filled with skulls stretching into the distance, ...