Bigger doesn't necessarily mean stronger says Ben Garrod. In fact its the smaller animals that have the strongest skeletons ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Thanks to Takayuki Hori’s X-ray origami paper, we’ve had the first look at origami animals’ skeletons since the first crane was folded neatly in the 17th century. Hori uses eight endangered animals’ ...

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.

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A huge virtual gallery of museum skeletons is fully open for viewing. A large group of scientists has painstakingly created 3D reconstructions of thousands of vertebrate specimens, which are now ...

Researchers have uncovered evidence of repeated mass animal sacrifice rituals that took place around 2,500 years ago at a mysterious site in southwestern Spain. The ritual sacrifices occurred at the ...

There is zero educational content in this post. It’s all gross or creepy stuff we’ve seen over the past year as home inspectors. We have plenty of photos of bats at soffits and in attics, but that’s ...