Oct. 15 (UPI) --The evolution of the brain allowed humans to acquire a knack for language and tool production. The braincase, the portion of the skull that houses the brain, also changed shape, but ...

The braincase of crocodylians has a distinctive structure. Unlike evolutionary relatives (birds and squamates), in crocodylians, all braincase bones are rigidly fixed together and form an akinetic ...

The human brain is about three times the size of the brains of great apes. This has to do, among other things, with the evolution of novel brain structures that enabled complex behaviors such as ...

(CN) — Researchers now believe that closely related species of dinosaurs could exhibit greater variations in their brains and skulls than previously thought. The results of a new study were published ...

The human brain is about three times the size of the brains of great apes. This has to do, among other things, with the evolution of novel brain structures that enabled complex behaviors such as ...

Ottawa, August 19, 2021 – Among the fierce carnivores that lived during the late Cretaceous was a predator named Daspletosaurus. The massive tyrannosaur, about nine metres long, lived in the coastal ...

What did researchers find? A 1.6-to-1.5-million-year-old skull from Ethiopia combines features from two different stages of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new analysis of a nearly 200-million-year-old sea-monster skull has surprised scientists, but ...

Researchers from the University of Manchester have used cutting-edge computerised tomography (CT) scanning technology to digitally reconstruct the skull of a giant sea monster discovered more than 60 ...

A new species of pterosaur named for its “ancient brain” has been found in Patagonia. The flying reptile lived in the early Jurassic period, between about 199.6 million years ago and 175.6 million ...