cave bear skull. Image by Openverse. The bear skull was discovered ... to study the neuroanatomy of this extinct species. Comparative analyses with modern bear species are already yielding insights ...

At some point in the late Ice Age, in the depths of a cave in southern France ... Unlike most prehistoric canid finds—which typically consist of a jawbone here, a partial skull there—the Baume ...

At some point in the late Ice Age, in the depths of a cave in southern France ... related to modern breeds or belonged to an extinct lineage. The skull of the newly discovered Palaeolithic ...

Even if their teeth are already razor-sharp, their crushing jaw force is enough to squish a whale’s skull effortlessly ... However, the entire family went extinct by the end of this era. “What If the ...

On the ground in one part of the cave, excavators found a series of four stacked skull caps. The combination of injuries discovered on the bones; the high density of human remains in the cave ...

On the ground in one part of the cave, excavators found a series of four stacked skull caps. The combination of injuries discovered on the bones; the high density of human remains in the cave ...

The mark was made by a cave bear, an animal that went extinct 24,000 years ago, and its placement allows the team to determine that the motif predates the bear’s extinction. “Archaeology has ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...

Archaeologists have uncovered fragmented skulls from a Guatemalan cave where people were sacrificed in a brutal Maya ritual to appease the rain god. The Cueva de Sangre, or "blood cave", was first ...