A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology has uncovered how the MN1 gene evolved to shape both the ...

The Chicago Archaeopteryx provides rare 3D insights into skull evolution, soft tissue structure, and the first evidence of ...

Unlike many East Asian archaic human fossils, which are often fragmentary, the Hualongdong skull is nearly complete, and in decent shape, allowing the team to draw some firm conclusions ... and ...

A drawing of the new seal species' skull, including its teeth. Rule et al. Royal Soc. Open Science (2020) Evolution overload— Sarcodectes magnus was no ordinary seal. Residing in the western ...

An illustration of the Lambeosaurus, which is a duck-billed dinosaur that shares traits with the newly discovered skull in this study ... able to better map the evolution of the Parasaurolophus ...

Replica of drawing of lions painted in the Chauvet Cave ... From this, he proposes a new theory for the evolution of the human brain: Homo sapiens developed rounder skulls and grew bigger parietal ...

If it's an undiscovered human ancestor, it could rewrite the story of human evolution. An ancient skull is baffling scientists because it looks unlike any known human ancestor. The mystery 300,000 ...

The skulls of tetrapods had fewer bones than extinct and living fish, limiting their evolution for millions of years, according to a latest study. By analysing fossil skulls of animals across the ...

A new study suggests that the limited number of skull bones could have prevented evolution for millions of years. Researchers from the University of Bristol, Barcelona's Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ...

An ancient skull dating back 300,000 years is unlike ... was a pivotal period for the evolution of hominins — species that are regarded as human or closely related — including modern humans.