Beneath the scales of Australia’s iconic monitor lizards (commonly known as goannas), scientists have discovered an unexpected secret: a hidden layer of bony skin structures known as osteoderms.

Ancient lungfish jaws tell a complex evolutionary story. New 3D analysis uncovers surprising feeding adaptations. Ancient predatory fish that eventually gave rise to the first land-dwelling ...

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Special thanks to our Launch Collaborators, including artists, innovators, educators, technologists, and students, who developed these inspiring examples of what is possible with Smithsonian Open ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For 20 years, the remains of a giant lizard that lived alongside ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia’s unique wildlife – from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct – are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of an eagle. We have found, however, that this incredible diversity is ...

Kathleen Garland receives funding from the Australian Government, Monash University and Museums Victoria. Alistair Evans receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, ...

A scanned image of the skeleton of the world’s most endangered marine animal, the vaquita, is now available on MorphoSource, a publicly accessible data archive. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The ...

Jupyter Notebook and python3 script to convert an .Nrrd 3D volume file exported from 3D Slicer into a zipped tiff stack for upload to MorphoSource. This script was recently created and is being tested ...

Have you ever wondered what Superman might see when gazing upon a Mexican bearded lizard with his X-ray vision? Well, you need wonder no more, thanks to a leviathan effort from an international team ...