http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (Phys.org) —A 320 million-year-old fossilised skull – found in Newsham, Blyth in Northumberland in the 18th century by a local grocer – has undergone state-of-the-art CT scanning by a University of Bristol researcher at Newcastle's Freeman Hospital. http://phys.org/news283588873.html Other Sciences Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:10:05 EST news283588873 Man's best friend may touch our hearts with their empathy, companionship, playfulness and loyalty, and they may also lead us to a deeper understanding of our heads. http://phys.org/news279538472.html Biology Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:34:39 EST news279538472 (Phys.org)—A new multidisciplinary study on the enigmatic large Horseshoe bat – found widespread throughout South and East Africa – has revealed that instead of just one species as previously believed, the bat is in fact five different species, four of which have just been classified for the first time following their discovery. http://phys.org/news266831849.html Biology Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:57:51 EST news266831849 A student at the University of Kansas School of Engineering has taken the first steps that could unlock new details about how extinct animals lived and hunted on a daily basis. http://phys.org/news266657526.html Other Sciences Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:32:13 EST news266657526 (Phys.org) -- Modern cats diverged in skull shape from their sabre-toothed ancestors early in their evolutionary history and then followed separate evolutionary trajectories, according to new research from the University of Bristol published today in PLoS ONE. http://phys.org/news261119185.html Biology Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:06:37 EST news261119185 Scientists at the University of Liverpool have found that mice and rats have evolved to gnaw with their front teeth and chew with their back teeth more successfully than rodents that 'specialise' in one or other of these biting mechanisms. http://phys.org/news254748999.html Biology Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:00:01 EST news254748999 Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other. http://phys.org/news243598946.html Other Sciences Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:22:40 EST news243598946 A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and scat samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups of animals develop scores of different species over time while others evolve only a few. Their findings appear in the current issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. http://phys.org/news241273958.html Biology Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:33:11 EST news241273958 No, this isn't Jurassic Park. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with help from an amateur fossil hunter in College Park, Md., have described the fossil of an armored dinosaur hatchling. It is the youngest nodosaur ever discovered, and a founder of a new genus and species that lived approximately 110 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous Era. Nodosaurs have been found in diverse locations worldwide, but they've rarely been found in the United States. The findings are published in the September 9 issue of the Journal of Paleontology. http://phys.org/news235212225.html Other Sciences Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:43:57 EST news235212225 The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth. http://phys.org/news189258862.html Other Sciences Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:54:40 EST news189258862