From towering mountain ranges to wide-open savannas, the animal kingdom is home to some of the most extraordinary horned ...

Choose your weapon: How animals got their tusks, horns, and antlers. Location and lifestyle seem to sway whether a species evolves mouth weapons, like tusks, or head weapons, like antlers and horns.

How this family of animals has developed such a wide variety of headgear has long stumped researchers. ... Horns of cows and goats are made of bone (in structures called "horn cores"), ...

Squamates — lizards and snakes — have repeatedly evolved horns atop their heads, on their eyebrows and jutting out from their snouts (SN: 6/9/20).Prior studies suggested these ornaments may ...

The horns of most animals have a bony core covered by a thin sheath of keratin, the same substance as hair and nails. Rhino horns are unique, however, because they are composed entirely of keratin.

As a group, dinosaurs were certainly well-ornamented animals. Horns, spikes, crests, plates, sails, clubs and other strange structures marked the bodies of many dinosaurs, but figuring out why ...

Sunday Times News: The horn is a pointed, bony structure on the heads of many mammals.

Animals Our teeth evolved from fish 'body armor' over 460 million years, ... "The horns most closely resemble the structure of horses' hoofs, turtle beaks and cockatoo bills," he said.

Unlike the horns of most animals, ... (CT) scans, have shown that the horns are, in fact, similar in structure to horses’ hooves, turtle beaks, and cockatoo bills.

The team found animal horns from a variety of animals, including cattle and caprines, or animals in the goat family, at the site. (Image credit: Wael Abu-Azizeh et al. 2022/RCU) ...

Life Trilobites used trident-like horns to fight over mates like stags. Three-pronged weapons on the heads of Walliserops fossils suggest that animals first duelled in sexual combat at least 400 ...