The new skull exhibits a long, pointed beak and a brain shape unique among all known birds previously discovered from the Mesozoic Era. The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, is diving ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – The University of Michigan’s Research Museums Center celebrated its 10,000th CT scan Friday by imaging a campus icon - the skull of a wolverine. Researchers chose the skull ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been discovered.

The skull of a person long thought to be Cleopatra’s half sister was misidentified for nearly a century, new research from Nature Scientific Reports concludes, raising intriguing questions about ...

It can be tricky to pinpoint the cause of pain at the base of your skull, the area behind your ears where your head and neck meet. Understanding the cause of the pain can help you determine how to ...

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 ...

Adding to the pain were the stark labels written on the shrouds: “Skull without a lower jaw”, “Bone fragments”, “Rib cage”, or “Upper and lower limbs”. Instead of names and ages ...