A bandicoot skull donated in 1920 belongs to the little brown bandicoot, a new extinct species, in a study of 800 specimens ...
A crocodile skull from the rock of the Great Sphinx was misnamed for a century. CT scans show where Herugavialis fits among ...
Only two complete dodo skulls are known to exist anywhere in the world: one at the Natural History Museum Denmark and one at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. The specimen housed in ...
Why does a quenda have a short, sturdy snout, while its relative the bilby has such a remarkably long one? New research led ...
Testing of the mounted head of a thylacine discovered by accident in an auction house catalogue has confirmed its authenticity as the extinct Tasmanian tiger. X-rays of the taxidermy head, which is ...
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A skull from the limestone formation that built the Great Sphinx is a crocodile species new to science
The fossil is a gavial, one of the long-snouted, fish-eating crocodilians, and it is about 45 million years old. Only two gavial species survive today, and both are endangered. A skull misfiled under ...
Learn how brain imprints on dodo skulls suggest that the flightless bird was exceptionally active and had a great sense of smell. The extinct dodo gets a bad rap as a scatterbrained bird, but it’s not ...
Around 4,500 years ago, ancient Egyptians carved the Great Sphinx of Giza out of limestone in the Mokattam rock formation. Little did they know, the material they were digging through preserved ...
Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...
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