Over 166 million years after its time roaming the Earth, scientists announced the discovery of a winged dinosaur skeleton that was found on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. In findings published in the ...

I have written before about the perfect Halloween-appropriate coffee table book. “The Skeleton Revealed: An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates” by Steve Huskey (Johns Hopkins University Press) ...

"The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can ...

New reconstruction of the skeleton of the 375-million-year-old fossil fish, Tiktaalik roseae. In a new study, researchers used Micro-CT to reveal vertebrae and ribs of the fish that were previously ...

Researchers at the Biomimetics-Innovation-Center, Hochschule Bremen—City University of Applied Sciences, have made pioneering discoveries about how mechanical stress shapes the ultrastructure of ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones lying almost on top of each other. The K2 site preserves thousands of remains ...

An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah could be the first of its kind, researchers say. The exact species and classification have yet to ...

When most people picture animals, they tend to think of the big, familiar ones: dogs, birds, fish, maybe elephants or whales. The thing is, creatures like that are a tiny minority. Around 97% of all ...

I have written before about the perfect Halloween-appropriate coffee table book. “The Skeleton Revealed: An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates” by Steve Huskey (Johns Hopkins University Press) ...