High above the tree line, where steep cliffs meet a clear blue sky, a unique bird circles patiently with a specific purpose.

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized ...

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.

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict ...

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the moment visitors step into the lobby, the Museum of Osteology lives up to its name. The fully articulated skeleton of an ...

A large animal skeleton has been discovered on a North Queensland beach over the weekend, after wild weather stripped back layers of sand. The bones were discovered on Geoffrey Bay over the weekend ...