You can tell how an animal held its head from the junction between the skull and the neck ... It's a fossil called Archaeopteryx. But what kind of creature was Archaeopteryx when it was alive?

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 ...

“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

A skull discovered in South Africa provides key evidence about human evolution, and early plans for a tunnel to connect England and France, in this week’s pick from the Nature archive.