Modern birds are the living relatives of dinosaurs. Take a look at the features of flightless birds like chickens and ...

A new scientific study led by researchers at The University of Manchester has re-examined a series of fossil skulls from the UK, providing new insights into two species of extinct marine reptiles. Dr ...

3. Dermal skull roof or dermatocranium A shield of membrane or dermal bone covering the top and sides of the head and extending down to the jaw rims, with a marginal row of teeth. In amphibians & stem ...

Cabot '82. Arnold Lewish, museum preparator is restoring the skeleton, which has a nine foot skull, the longest known fossil reptile skull in the world. The fossil's jaws are nearly 10 times as ...

Whether human or reptile, in the skull of most terrestrial vertebrates there is a gaping hole in the temple; in the case of ...

but the skull size is like similar species, meaning it is probably still a small reptile. The animal lived on Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, which was a supercontinent made up of modern-day South ...

Though the massive skull he purchased belonged to a mosasaur, which is a marine reptile and not a dinosaur, Invernizzi prizes the ancient animal head. It now sits in the living room of his home ...

Mary Anning's brother Joseph found the skull in 1810 and Mary found parts of the neck a year later. Our collection contains many marine reptile specimens from the Lower Lias of the Dorset coast, ...