As mammals, we humans pack some sizable cheeks on either side of our faces. There’s some skin and fat, but also important muscles and ligaments that connect the lower jaw – known as the mandible – to ...

Paleontologists in Canada have made a groundbreaking discovery after identifying a previously unknown soft tissue structure ...

A mysterious skull buried in the Australian outback for millennia is turning everything we thought we knew about a lost giant ...

Researchers have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur ...

but also their anatomy. Anatomically, they were very different. This new skull indicates that an anatomically modern bird was present at the same time. And then when this asteroid hit the planet 66 ...

He investigated how various factors – ranging from ecological roles to brain anatomy – played into bird diversification ... fossils – particularly a nearly intact skull. Notable features of the bird ...

Scientists now have a new waypoint on this journey, thanks to the discovery of a fossil skull from an ancient bird known as Vegavis iaai. While the species itself was named more than 20 years ago, its ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The new skull does provide rare insight into bird skull anatomy just before the extinction event, says Daniel Field, a paleontologist with the University of Cambridge who was not an author on the ...

The skull’s excellent state of preservation offers scientists a rare opportunity to study the anatomy of this ancient bird in greater detail than ever before. The fossil is now part of the Geiseltal ...

They achieve this by creating digital ‘endocasts’—3D models of the space inside a bird’s skull where the brain once resided ... at the Gallery of Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, Paris. Credit: ...