Indre, France, recently revealed nine pits containing the skeletons of at least 28 horses. The creatures were all adult males and were laid to rest carefully in a particular arrangement. The largest ...

The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, which exhibits both human and Neanderthal traits, has fueled debate about ...

How have animal skeletons adapted over thousands of years of evolution? In this short film for primary schools Martin Hughes-Games looks at the skeletons of animals and humans and explains how and ...

The researchers determined that the skeleton belonged to a mature adult that weighed about 1.3 kilograms, or 2.9 pounds. The anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws indicate that it was arboreal ...

As has been noticed in our news columns, there was found, near Aurora, in this State, not long since, a gigantic bone, supposed to belong to the skeleton of some of the extinct animals.

Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious mix of features ...

How does the armored tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintain a continuous covering as the animals' skeletons expand during growth? This is a question that has perplexed Professor Mason Dean ...

Voigt has traveled to five natural history museums across Europe to photograph dinosaurs and other extinct animals' skeletons, producing a collection of images that depict these long-dead ...

This can help us to understand the development, origin and evolution of creatures - and you might be surprised by what a bone can reveal about an animal. Skeletons are an absolute classic during ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...