Neanderthals have long been portrayed as cold-adapted Ice Age specialists, their broad faces and big noses cast as natural radiators that warmed frigid air before it hit the lungs. New work on a ...

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New evidence may help explain the brute strength of the tyrannosaurid, says a University of Alberta researcher whose finding demonstrates how a fused nasal bone helped turn the animal into a ...

The vomer bone is a thin, unpaired bone located in the center of the nasal cavity. This small, trapezoidal bone is part of the nasal septum, the middle wall of the nasal respiratory cavity. It ...

It all started when artist Charlee Heinz discovered a deer that had died in the woods. “I already had a slight interest in collecting bones and stuff,” said Heinz. “I waited a year for it to rot away ...