The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves. Since the 1930s, ...

Pulaosuarus’ throat seems somewhere between the two. Its vocal structures appear to be similar to that of another dinosaur, ...

Pulaosaurus lived in the thick forests of what is now northeastern China, part of a fossil-rich region called the Yanliao ...

This approach of using a name to label and identify a health issue has had success in the past. In 2012, a team of experts ...

A fascinating discovery in the world of paleontology has shattered the Hollywood-inspired image of dinosaurs popularized by ...

However, the fossil really stands out because, in a rare stroke of luck for paleontologists, its bony vocal organs were ...

The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

An analysis of a roughly 180-million-year-old fossil fin reveals serrations and flexibility that might have served to dampen ...

IT may be known to some readers of NATURE that the skull of Sir Thomas Browne has recently been reinterred at Norwich, but that previously it came to London, where careful measurements, drawings ...

While full-grown adults have 206 bones, babies are born with far more. Here's how many, and what happens to them.