One of the most fascinating features of many fish is their scales. These tiny, often overlooked structures play a big role in ...

A big fragment of an ancient Greek kouros statue that belongs to the Archaic period was exposed by waves in Kusadasi, Turkey.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...

The discovery of a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil in Germany has provided scientists with unprecedented insights into ...

Described as the "king of the ancient Egyptian forest," the hypercarnivorous hyaenodonts were enormous mammals-imagine a ...

A prehistoric sinkhole in Florida preserved fossils for half a million years until their discovery in 2022, offering rare ...

Hidden beneath Egypt’s desert sands, scientists uncovered a nearly complete skull of Bastetodon, a 30-million-year-old ...

A team led by paleontologist Shorouq Al-Ashqar of Mansoura University and the American University in Egypt has given the ...

For centuries, humans have naturally squatted to relieve themselves in a posture that aligns perfectly with the body's ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...