The discovery of a 480-million-year-old sponge in China has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of early reef ecosystems ...

Real-skeleton biology models are teaching aids. They reveal, among other things, how an animal moved, where it lived, if it got into fights, the shape of its teeth (if any) and what it ate – or if a ...

This can help us to understand the development, origin and evolution of creatures - and you might be surprised by what a bone can reveal about an animal. Skeletons are an absolute classic during ...

How have animal skeletons adapted over thousands of years of evolution? In this short film for primary schools Martin Hughes-Games looks at the skeletons of animals and humans and explains how and ...

How does the armored tiling on shark and ray cartilage maintain a continuous covering as the animals' skeletons expand during growth? This is a question that has perplexed Professor Mason Dean ...