A new review of Triassic fossils from Germany reveals rich tetrapod diversity and links to modern biodiversity and climate ...

Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time.

Researchers found evidence that the joints evolved as the species became active predators with jaws and mobile skeletons.

With their distinctive flat faces and bent-over ears, they are a unique breed of cat. And thanks to their popularity among ...

Schinderhannes is a nickname for Johannes Bückler, a criminal who was born sometime in 1779 in Germany, to a family of ...

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

Unlike the vibrant festival of colours celebrated across India, Holi in Sohana has long been associated with animal carcasses, skeletons, and ashes from cremation grounds. This practice has led many ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch followed the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off non-avian ...

The researchers determined that the skeleton belonged to a mature adult that weighed about 1.3 kilograms, or 2.9 pounds. The anatomy of the animal's limbs and claws indicate that it was arboreal ...

For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly ...