The fossil skull that rocked the world—the Taung find's complex colonial legacy 100 years later
In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...
Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...
We studied more than 500 giraffe skulls from all over Africa – and confirmed there are 4 distinct species
For more than a decade many researchers have compared the DNA of giraffes from all parts of Africa. These studies have ...
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Rare bird skull from the age of dinosaurs helps illuminate avian evolution
A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ skull just went on tour − here’s what the medieval saint himself would have said about its veneration
At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker whose writings I study – made its ...
These Paleolithic Skulls Had Odd Tooth Damage. One Anthropologist Says It was Caused By Cheek Piercings.
The piercings many have been associated with community participation and major life events. Skulls from Paleolithic Europe’s Pavlovian people have long been noted for their damaged teeth, with wear ...
69-million-year-old skull found in Antarctica is oldest ‘modern’ bird
The near-complete fossil skull, unearthed on Vega Island near the Antarctic Peninsula, reveals a bird that thrived in the ...
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Skull fossil discovery reveals oldest known modern bird
Together, these features place Vegavis in the group that includes all modern birds, and the fossil skull represents “the earliest member of this entire radiation that we see around us today ...
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Do Humans Originate from Africa? Skull Found in Cave in Greece Challenges Theory
The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...
Antarctic skull sheds light on ancient birds 69 million years ago
Antarctica has been called the ‘final frontier’ for humanity’s understanding of life when dinosaurs roamed the planet ...
Why most dogs are actually the same
Study finds a poodle, Irish wolfhound, Labrador and Border Collie all have the same shaped skull, with size being the only ...
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Three arrested with human skull in Nigerian community – Official
Police operatives from the Okigwe Divisional Police Headquarters arrested the suspects on 3 February along Okigwe-Umuahia ...