Scientists have discovered a nearly complete skull of a Hyaenodonta, a hypercarnivore that that lived during the Oligocene Epoch some 20 million years ago. Scientifically known as Bastetodon syrtos, ...

Paleontologists located B. syrtos’ football-sized skull in the Fayum Depression—an area with a century-long paleontological history that, crucially, straddles a 15-million-year window ...

An ancient skull that was found in Turkey close to a century ago does not belong to Cleopatra's younger, rebellious sister, after all.

The tomb’s design and location, as well as the skull’s age, led some experts to suspect it might belong to Cleopatra’s murdered sister. The debate swirled for a century, yet the skull itself ...

Vertebrates Collections Manager Richard Sabin describes the key features of the skull (BBC Radio 4 clip). Close-up of the deformed hole at the base of the fifteenth-century Barbary lion skull The hole ...

Image source: Archaelogy News Modern scientific analysis has finally unraveled the mystery of a skull found in Ephesus, Turkey, over a century ago. The skull, which was initially believed to be ...

A new study settled a century-long debate over whether an ancient skull found at an elaborate tomb in Ephesos, Turkey, was Cleopatra’s sister. Photo from Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna ...

Short snouts and a flat profile—within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

The story of human evolution has emerged slowly over the century. The first significant discovery was that of the "Taung child" in 1925. Found in South Africa, the skull belonged to a child who ...