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 ...

Sometime during the early to late Eocene, there was a massive predator unlike anything on Earth today. If you were roaming ...

The Neanderthal occupants of a cave in central Spain had a pretty unusual tradition that seems to have been passed down ...

A similar mark was found on a child’s hip bone. Even the way the bones were placed within the cave, such as four stacked skull caps in one spot, sparked questions. The experts conclude that the ...

Photo by Nikita Zelenkov The fossil was discovered in El Abrón Cave in Western Cuba’s Pinar-del-Río province, the study said. The extinct species was discovered in a geological layer of the ...

In fact, Thomas Jefferson —American politician and amateur paleontologist—named a genus of extinct sloths with this ... tree climbing much like today’s bear-faced slowpokes lived entirely ...

A black bear skull and a pair of turkey eyeballs were at the center of an unusual court case Tuesday in Montgomery County — but the confusion surrounding the sale of such items is all too common ...

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 ...