Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 400,000 years ago, early humans in Europe, Asia and Africa lived alongside giant straight-tusked elephants, far bigger than their ...

A team of paleontologists has identified the oldest and most skeletally complete dome-headed dinosaur ever reported, based on ...

Senckenberg scientist Ingmar Werneburg, together with an international team, re-examined the skull structure of Tyrannosaurus rex. Using an "anatomical network analysis," the researchers showed that ...

A CT scan of the skull of a long-necked plesiosaur shows the cranial architecture of these long-extinct marine reptiles didn't evolve much over 22 million years that they lived during the Cretaceous ...

When a child is born, their brain is only a fraction of the size that it will one day grow to be. As many caretakers will recall, an infant's skull is flexible and made of bone and fibrous material ...