"We were surprised to find the heftier skull of the desert rat-kangaroo isn't necessarily adapted for biting into harder foods. When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the ...

we turned to the animal's skull. The ngudlukanta had a solidly built skull, with a short and wide face. This led researchers to suggest that it could eat harder desert foods like roots ...

Biologist Katharine Edmonson asked the young boy who approached her table if he wanted to hold the tiger skull in his hands. Some children hesitate, but not 11-year-old Devin Shuman, a fifth-grader at ...

“We were surprised to find the heftier skull of the desert rat-kangaroo isn’t necessarily adapted for biting into harder foods,” Mitchell said in a university news release. “When we included the ...

“We were surprised to find the heftier skull of the desert rat-kangaroo isn’t necessarily adapted for biting into harder foods. When we included the animal’s smaller size into the ...

“When we included the animal’s smaller size into the analysis, the robust features of the desert rat-kangaroo’s skull were only found to be effective enough to handle eating a softer range ...