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 ...

They're the world's largest marsupials, they hop to get around, and they use their tails as a fifth limb. But they're also ...

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 ...

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

Over a decade after being relegated to the “world’s ugliest animal,” the blobfish made ... The fish’s one-of-a-kind anatomy grants it the ability to thrive in the depths of the ocean ...

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

The crocodile surfaces and grabs part of the animal. The hyenas win and the crocodile ... Our team's research modeled the anatomy of these early humans, Australopithecus afarensis, to find out ...

Analysis - The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then ...

with researchers keen to discover more about the animal's biology and habitat. Since 70% of the skeleton was recovered, scientists at the Cruzy Museum are examining its growth patterns, anatomy ...

The crocodile surfaces and grabs part of the animal. The hyenas win and the crocodile ... Some researchers have also linked Australopithecine anatomy to an, as yet unknown, knuckle-walking common ...