Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter’s skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago’s Field Museum.

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, ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, but the entire lineage was wiped out about 25 million years ago, leaving ...

A 307-million-year-old skull discovered in Canada may have belonged to one of the earliest known vegetarian animals, scientists say. Paleontologists - scientists who study fossils - found the skull ...

The ELTE Eötvös Loránd University is home to the skulls of more than 150 dog breeds and other animals. To make this unique collection accessible to all, researchers digitized the skulls of 431 dogs, ...

A 10,500-year-old skull of wild cattle on a stake found in northern Germany may reveal one of Europe’s earliest burial rituals.

Skulls are the most interesting part of any animal skeleton. Animal skulls can tell us a lot about the animals that owned them and the teeth in the animal skull can tell us what they fed upon. Some ...

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 ...

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 ...