Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

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From alligators to ostriches, the Anthropology Department's Vertebrate Osteology Collection is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. "We have over 12,000 vertebrate specimens in our collections.

FERNLEY — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for Kendel Worley, there is beauty – and art waiting to be created – in death. Through an elaborate process that can take up to a few months, Worley ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for Kendel Worley, there is beauty – and art waiting to be created – in death. Through an elaborate process that can take up to a few months, Worley ...

A new species of ancient whale, Perucetus colossus, was a giant of the ocean. It may have weighed twice as much as a blue whale because of its dense bones. Researchers hypothesize that it was a slow ...

What would you say if I told you, there's a place in Central Florida filled to the brim with animal skeletons from around the world? Don't worry, it's not scary, it's Skeletons: Animals Unveiled. I ...

Ligers, mules, and narlugas are all known examples of hybrid animals (i.e., the offspring of two different species that interbreed for various reasons). These organisms often possess genes from each ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. After four years of digging for fossils in a churchyard in York, Pennsylvania, amateur paleontologist Chris Haefner made an intriguing find.

In a grim study, a team of nearly 50 researchers concludes that extreme ocean heat killed off two crucial coral species that ...

The region where the skeleton was discovered hasn't had much use in the past 30 plus years, so there's currently no record of how the bones got there. A skeleton of a mystery animal was dug up ...