In a new study published in the online-open access journal PLoS ONE, Per Christiansen at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, reports the finding that the evolution of skull and mandible ...

From emus to woodpeckers, modern birds show remarkable diversity in skull shape and size, often hypothesized to be the result of a sudden hastening of evolution following the mass extinction that ...

Horses have developed long faces simply 'because they can,' a team of evolutionary biologists say. In a major review of how mammalian heads evolve, scientists found that adaptations to feeding explain ...

Using the FEM-program ANSYS 5.4, we have shaped a model of the human skull in which the flow of forces and the relative location and magnitudes of stresses are investigated. Forces are applied from ...

In what may be the most startling fossil find in decades, scientists in central Africa say they have unearthed the oldest trace of a pre-human ancestor -- a remarkably intact skull of an apelike ...

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Winter is the perfect time of year for gazing at icy evergreen trees, drinking warm beverages by a roaring fire, and dropping 3-D printed fox skulls into the snow. At least, that last activity was ...