Technicians digitized a crushed fossil skull with enough precision to track each displaced fragment. The specimen was Little ...

Researchers discover how woodpecker skull geometry keeps powerful pecks stable, allowing the birds to hammer wood thousands of times safely.

Woodpeckers are well known for striking tree trunks with remarkable force and precision. These birds deliver thousands of high-speed impacts per day, generating mechanical loads that would destabilize ...

Scientists study physical evidence such as cave art, hand-crafted tools, and skull structures to infer cognitive and speech capabilities ...

(CN) — Birds didn’t just inherit their dinosaur lineage — they rewired it. That's according to researchers in a study that say as their brains grew, birds' skulls became more flexible, unlocking new ...

A large, creepy looking skull fragment washed out of the Atlantic Ocean this week on North Carolina’s Outer Banks. It was roughly 3 feet wide and 2 feet tall, and showed up on Hatteras Island just ...

HATTERAS, N.C. — Officials say the skull of a humpback whale washed onto the shore of Hatteras Island on Wednesday. Cape Hatteras National Seashore said a large portion of the skull was found and ...