In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most complete skulls ever found ... inspiration from Bastet, the ancient leonine Egyptian goddess ...

The town’s thousands of ancient graves hold many well-preserved Viking skeletons. The Gothenburg researchers decided to scale up the technique from single teeth to entire skulls. The CT scans provided ...

The skull and bones of the young woman buried overlooking ... who used cutting-edge 3D technology and forensic techniques to give the ancient woman a face for the first time in millennia.

A team of scientists in Egypt have found a rare ancient skull belonging to a "fearsome" cat-like predator. The palaeontologists think the skull belongs to a new species of hyaenodonta - which is ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete skull found in Egypt reveals a new 30-million-year-old species, Bastetodon, a leopard-sized apex predator from the extinct group Hyaenodonta ...

Our ancient ancestors have done some interesting things to human bones over the years, but one example from the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula is a real puzzle. There, in multiple locations, ...

The nearly complete skull of Bastetodon was unearthed in the Jebel Qatrani geological formation, in the heart of the Fayoum Desert. This region, once covered by vast swamps and tropical forests, is ...

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts ... a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of hyaenodonta.

“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

A recent study found a nearly complete skull in Antarctica that may belong to an ancient ancestor of ducks and geese called Vegavis iaai. This species lived around 68 million years ago.