A recent study found a nearly complete skull in ... oldest known modern bird. Its brain structure and long beak resemble those of today’s waterfowl, even though its strong jaw muscles are ...

A 69-million-year-old skull ... shape, jaw musculature and hind limbs suggest it was highly specialised for diving in pursuit of fish. “It would probably be easily mistaken for modern grebes ...

In this feature, compare the skulls and jawbones of a Neanderthal and an early modern human and see if ... above), we present casts of two famous ancient skulls and associated jawbones housed ...

finding that the skulls show a combination of both Neanderthal and more ancient morphologies. The researchers estimate that the skulls are about 430,000 years old—the oldest specimens with Neanderthal ...

Female Homo neanderthalensis skull discovered at Tabun Cave at Mount Carmel in Israel. Known as Tabun 1, this Neanderthal specimen is around 130,000 years old. Neanderthals evolved in Europe and Asia ...

Studies of a skull fragment have revealed it to be from an ancient dolphin Research was led by Mizuki Murakami of the Waseda University in Japan The fossil was first found in 1970 but its origin ...