Buried in a cave for over 130,000 years, a perfectly preserved Neanderthal skull has shattered a major belief about how our ...

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...

The human skeleton has 206 bones and is divided into the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. Your axial skeleton includes 80 bones, like those in the skull and spine, that run down the ...

Researchers from National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources (NBFGR), Kochi functioning under Indian Council of Agricultural Research, have discovered a new species of finless snake eel and named it ...

Note 1: The taxon listed in the ledger for this lot is "Argyriosus capillaris." Note 2: "All were together in the same bottle & I was at first inclined with (illegible) to refer them to one species" ...

1 Department of Medical Imaging and Radiodiagnostics, Bouaké’s Teaching Hospital, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire. 2 Falculty of Medical Sciences, Alassane Ouattara University, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire. 3 ...

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The story of how us humans—and other mammals—got our noses may have just gotten more complicated. This is the conclusion of a new study by researchers from Japan who have studied how the face develops ...

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates, diverged widely among species while maintaining a highly complex anatomical structure. Notably, mammals have a “nose” that can actively ...

Two new species of dark-body snake eels are described based on specimens collected from Taiwan. Ophichthus kbalanensis sp. nov. has a long tail; dorsal-fin origin above posterior third of pectoral fin ...

What Is the Skull Made Of? The skull, also known as the cranium, is the group of bones that forms the head. While many people think of the skull as a single structure, it’s actually made up of 22 ...

IN 1898 I directed attention to the fact that the paired elements in the front of the palate of lizards and snakes seem in all their relations to agree with the pair of bones in Ornithorhynchus, which ...