Sweden's Viking Age population appears to have suffered from severe oral and maxillofacial disease, sinus and ear infections, osteoarthritis, and much more. This is shown in a study in which Viking ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

Explore the fascinating discovery of the African predator Bastetodon syrtos, an ancient prehistoric carnivore from Egypt.

An artistic depiction of the Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird, Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean ...

About half a million years ago, several horses, sloths and armadillos fell into a sinkhole in Florida's Big Bend region and ...

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All dinosaurs had hips made up of three major bones—the blade-like ilium on top ... guides to what extinct dinosaurs were like, their anatomy acting as an outline for what paleontologists ...

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The hyoid bone is therefore instrumental in producing sound (a key function of the larynx) and performing many vital tasks such as coughing, moving the tongue, breathing, maintaining head posture, and ...

The only other place that a similar skull fossil has been found is the USA. The Geiseltal Saxony-Anhalt is located south-west of Halle and was a lignite mining area until 1993. Numerous ...