When five-year-old Donnie Lowbridge was flown to a major hospital with a fractured skull after a freak accident involving a family horse, her parents, Ryan and Katelin, braced themselves for the long ...

After a devastating bushfire in 2014, the Pakana Rangers thought Lungtalanana was mostly devoid of life. Then an echidna was captured on a camera set up to monitor wildlife on Clarke Island off ...

A turning point in their evolution was the development of larger brains, which in turn led to changes in the size and shape of their skulls. New research from the University of Chicago and ...

New research shows how physical changes in the skull affected the mechanics of the way birds move and use their beaks to eat and explore their habitats -- adaptations that helped them evolve into ...

If he’s to survive, they will need to drill a hole into his skull and relieve the pressure. Ouch. If you’ve watched The Pitt, ER, or any other medical drama, you’re no doubt familiar with ...

The new clip video was shared on social media last month and appears to show Samantha Strable, known online as Sam Jones, stroking an echidna’s spiny back and touching its paw before placing it ...

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Fragments of the left side of the skull of a human relative have been discovered in Spain, revealing the face of the oldest human ancestor ever discovered in Western Europe.

For many older South Koreans, the name "white skull squad" harks back to a dark time of violence and repression. It was first used in the 1950s, when the country's first president, Rhee Syngman ...

But no one ever mentioned the skulls. "My ancestors didn't tell me anything about it. Maybe they were frightened," he told 7.30. Mr Tui can sit under a tree and look at the stone monument erected ...

Kangaroo Island Echidnas are a sub-species of the mainland echidna. Echidnas are about 30-45 centimetres in length and are covered in light to dark brown fur and cream-coloured spines. The spines are ...