“Double tusked narwhals are extremely uncommon,” he told IFLScience. “Both male and female narwhals possess two maxillary ...

Despite being separated by millions of years of evolution, dogs and cats have evolved similar skull shapes due to ...

Fossils of Oculudentavis found encased in amber in Myanmar in 2020 have confounded scientists from around the world.

Imagine a creature so immense, so breathtakingly large, that its shadow could swallow you whole as it soared overhead.

It’s wonderful to imagine kangaroos almost four times the size of big reds hopping around ancient Australia, but this lot ...

A group of bottlenose dolphins was seen “throwing” and killing a juvenile common dolphin off the coast of Wales, video footage shows. Photo from Javier Hernandez, UnSplash A pod of bottlenose ...

Researchers carrying out excavation work in southern Peru found a tomb filled with the remains of two dozen people believed to be battle victims. Archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology ...

The next step? High-tech gene editing. Researchers used CRISPR to splice key dire wolf genes—those controlling skull size, fur density, and jaw strength—into gray wolf embryos. These modified embryos ...

Through CRISPR gene editing, they modified a gray wolf genome by altering 14 genes at 20 specific points, many of which govern traits like muscle mass, skull size, and fur thickness. The result ...

A girl has relearned how to walk, talk and swallow after undergoing an operation rarely carried out on children, in which doctors stored part of her skull in her stomach. Ellie Morris-Davies ...

While they weren’t built for long-distance running due to their size, they could move quickly in short bursts. Their skulls also had a flattened front and shorter snout like a lion or hyena. This gave ...