With a new database of medical images, zoo and wildlife vets can finally see what healthy uncommon animals, from rhinos and tamarins to pangolins and sea stars, should look like on the inside. With a ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

In biology and paleontology (the study of extinct organisms) there are a few ways to estimate the age of an animal's skeleton ...

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.

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What would you say if I told you, there's a place in Central Florida filled to the brim with animal skeletons from around the world? Don't worry, it's not scary, it's Skeletons: Animals Unveiled. I ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...