The oldest animal with a skeleton has been discovered, a creature shaped like a thimble that lived on the seafloor more than a half-billion years ago, researchers say. These findings shed light on the ...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and for Kendel Worley, there is beauty – and art waiting to be created – in death. Through an elaborate process that can take up to a few months, Worley ...

From alligators to ostriches, the Anthropology Department's Vertebrate Osteology Collection is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. "We have over 12,000 vertebrate specimens in our collections.

“Could somebody quickly Google how big a walrus is?” Artist and sculptor Alistair Lambert addresses a small group of people who have gathered in an abandoned office building in North London. They’re ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- A dog rescued from Southwest Philadelphia is on his way to recovery. Main Line Animal Rescue said a concerned citizen stumbled upon the dog tied to a tree over Easter weekend.

How does the armored tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintain a continuous covering as the animals' skeletons expand during growth? This is a question that has perplexed Professor Mason Dean, a ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. After four years of digging for fossils in a churchyard in York, Pennsylvania, amateur paleontologist Chris Haefner made an intriguing find.

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Ligers, mules, and narlugas are all known examples of hybrid animals (i.e., the offspring of two different species that interbreed for various reasons). These organisms often possess genes from each ...