A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Long after an animal’s soft tissues have vanished, its skull still carries a blueprint of how it sensed the world. For ...

(CN) — Birds didn’t just inherit their dinosaur lineage — they rewired it. That's according to researchers in a study that say as their brains grew, birds' skulls became more flexible, unlocking new ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

The researchers’ wider analysis, based on the reconstruction and more than 100 other skull fossils, has also sketched a radically different picture of human evolution, they reported Thursday in the ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, jawless fishes swam Earth’s seas, their brains protected on the outside by armored skin, and on the inside by plates made of cartilage. Scientists are still piecing ...

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

PIERRE, S.D. -- More than 100 bison skulls unearthed by the 2011 Missouri River flood are giving scientists more information about how the modern bison evolved. The 101 skulls found in October by the ...

In the aquatic environment, suction feeding is far more common than biting as a way to capture prey. A new study shows that the evolution of biting behavior in eels led to a remarkable diversification ...

(CNN) — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

PIERRE -- More than 100 bison skulls unearthed by the 2011 Missouri River flood are giving scientists more information about how the modern bison evolved. The 101 skulls found in October by the U.S.