Ray Bandar's "Bone Palace" spanned thousands of skulls he stashed in the basement of his Miraloma Park home. The collection lives on at the Academy of Sciences.

In one of his best stories of all time, our former shooting editor kills an enormous crocodile on safari — or at least, he ...

For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Roberto Chavez-ArceA diver holding the skull of the short-faced bear, Arcotherium wingei ... Next up, read about the extinct cave lion species scientists are trying to bring back to life.

One day, late in January, a friend and I watched two Steller sea lions swimming near Pt. Louisa. One of them held a front flipper high above the water for several minutes. We often see this behavior, ...

Within minutes, Vasilevskiy’s mask looks completely different, enveloped in the Gzhel pottery-themed design capped by his signature lion head on ... simply couldn’t bear to see a beautifully ...

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Titled "Before the End," the installation of four, eight-foot tall bronze sculptures topped with animal skull fragments is ... a Northern white rhino, a lion, a mountain gorilla, an orangutan ...

Bison and bighorn sheep skulls have also been found in the ice ... Fossils from Ice Age mammals are common throughout Wyoming, and intact mammoth, rhino, and lion carcasses can turn up in the ...