Science news articles about 'old skull'

... to appear online the week of June 22 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The skull belongs to a group of primitive primates known as Plesiadapiforms, which evolved in the 10 ...

... is no fairy tale. A 50 million year old skull reveals that huge birds with a 5 meter ... a long time, but the new fossil is one the best skulls ever found, and preserves previously unknown details of ...

The big cats originated in the Old World, not North America as previously thought, according to a new study on a two-million-year-old skull.