The other changes will be discussed in later lectures. Evolution of the skull The skull is a skeletal structure found in head region. In the Chondrichthyes, the skull consists of chondrocranium and ...

The prehistoric human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens ...

Humans, Homo sapiens, have unique features compared with other closely related hominin species and primates, including the ...

In the heart of Yunnan province, China, paleontologists have unveiled an incredible chapter in Earth's prehistoric history. A ...

We study the function and evolution of the musculoskeletal system of vertebrates. We look at the evolution of the skull and its relation to feeding behaviour in dinosaurs, birds, crocodiles and ...

The skull showed a mix of primitive and modern ... Maria Martinon-Torres, director of Spain's National Research Center on Human Evolution, called the site "one of the most significant discoveries ...

This article examines the fossil evidence of our 6 million year evolution. Darwin's great insight, and the unifying principle of biology today, is that all species are related to one another like ...

Researchers scanned the skull of a more than 70-million-year-old tyrannosaur, dubbed the Bisti Beast, from the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico, at Los Alamos National Laboratory—the largest item to have ...

Around 45 million years ago, a 4.6 foot-tall (1.40 meters) flightless bird called Diatryma roamed the Geiseltal region in ...

Believed to be roughly the same size as A. afarensis, A. robustus had a large, "robust" (heavier, thicker) skull, as well as a jaw and large teeth that were well adapted to chewing. Like some ...

A misidentified Diatryma skull from Germany's Geiseltal region was rediscovered, confirming the rare bird's herbivorous ...

Our Human Evolution gallery explores the origins of Homo sapiens ... From the six- to seven-million-year-old Sahelanthropus tchadensis skull found in Chad, we know that they had evolved small canines, ...