Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quentin Martinez and Eli Amson are discussing the braincase and olfactory bulb endocast of the mammoth skull from the SMNS ...

Museum staff and Brian Ross (middle), the head of fossil mounting at Research Casting International (RCI), pose with ‘Junior,’ a remarkably complete Bison latifrons skull disc ...

Shark teeth found in 5-million-year-old whale skulls provide direct evidence of ancient feeding behavior and predator-prey ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be on display during the holiday season Jack Tamisiea The museum recently ...

A previously misidentified Triassic cynodont has been confirmed as a new species, revealing a surviving lineage of early ...

Anew dinosaur species has been identified from a remarkably well-preserved skull and partial skeleton found in northwestern ...

Life began in the sea, and it took a long time to move onto land. Plants started creeping ashore about 475 million years ago. Roughly 100 million years later, the first backboned animals followed. For ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

"It was the top predator; that was its place in the food chain. There was none bigger or more dangerous than it." ...

A University of Iowa-led research team looks forward to paleontologists paying more attention to lesser researched species, ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social behavior. A new international study shows that this vital sense leaves a ...