So excited doesn't quite capture it MARIAN FAA: Three thousand kilometres away in the PNG province of Madang, a descendant of explorer Miklouho Maclay is waiting for the skulls to arrive.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete skull found in Egypt reveals a new 30-million-year-old species, Bastetodon, a leopard-sized apex predator from the extinct group Hyaenodonta ...

Now, an international team of paleontologists has found a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of hyaenodonta. The discovery could bring ...

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...

But no one ever mentioned the skulls. "My ancestors didn't tell me anything about it. Maybe they were frightened," he told 7.30. Mr Tui can sit under a tree and look at the stone monument erected ...

Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old “top apex” predator. “Just as we were about to conclude our work, a team member spotted something remarkable —a set ...

Why did prehistoric people on the Iberian Peninsula sever the heads of some of their dead and put iron nails in their skulls? This question has been debated by archaeologists for years and we ...

An analysis of the origins of seven severed skulls with nails through them shows that some people treated this way in Iron Age Spain were local while others came from afar.

The skulls of Viking-age Swedes, dated between the 10th and 12th centuries, suggest the population of the time was suffering from a wide variety of ailments. Researchers from the University of ...

Ancient relics from pre-Pharoah times, 100-million-year-old dinosaur fossils and a wide collection of human skulls only begin to scratch the surface of the peculiar and rare items the curator has been ...

Jamie Snowden sees Wendigo as one sure to be suited by a step up to three miles in the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle, as he seeks to add to his tally of Cheltenham Festival winners. The Lambourn ...