In 1983, archaeologists excavating a cave in South Africa discovered an unusual femur bone. It belonged to an unspecified antelope and was found to be 7,000 years old. X-rays revealed that three ...

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like creature 76 million years ago, according to a new study.

The fossilized neck bone of a flying reptile unearthed in Canada shows tell-tale signs of being bitten by a crocodile-like ...

Researchers from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (Canada), the University of Reading (UK), and the University of New England (Australia) have found a rare crocodilian bite mark on the ...

Call in the forensic experts, for a crime has been committed (albeit, 76 million years ago). That’s according to an ...

The fossil of a juvenile flying reptile bears the unmistakable evidence of a deadly encounter. A crocodile-like creature ...

Bone marrow plays a crucial role in maintaining hematopoietic stem cells and bone homeostasis. However, research has been ...

The first pterosaurs had a sail-like tensioning system for flying with potentially cumbersome tail vanes, which they could ...

The bone marrow is the spongy part of your bones where oxygen-carrying red bloods, infection-fighting white blood cells, and clot-forming platelets are made. The bone marrow is a soft tissue with many ...

we can put skin on the bone of animals we will never see in our lifetimes. “Pterosaurs were wholly unique animals with no modern equivalents, with a huge elastic membrane stretching from their ...

For all we know, figuring out how pterosaur membranes worked, may inspire new aircraft technologies." Studying prehistoric animals is usually restricted to examining fossilized bone but sometimes ...

Your child then has the stem cells back (transplant). These stem cells make their way to the bone marrow. Here they make the blood cells they need to recover. Stem cells are very early cells made in ...