A new study analyzing two fossilized whale skulls from around 5 million years ago has revealed fragments of sharks' teeth ...

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Hundreds of human skulls and jawbones recovered from an ancient cemetery in southwest Arkansas are the remains of ancestors of the Caddo Nation, according to a new study published in the Journal of ...

Giant dinosaurs weren’t terrifying just because of their size or teeth. According to a new study published in the Anatomical Record, their skulls were evolutionary tools of destruction, custom-built ...

Now, for the first time, a definite example of cranial surgery has been found in an animal: specifically, a nearly complete cow's skull discovered at a Neolithic site that dates to 3,400 to 3,000 BC.

Lesions found in ancient skulls suggest that cancer could have been a medical issue long before our time. Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University of ...

These ancient tribes were bad to the bone. Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton masks among a repository of ...

A new study settled a century-long debate over whether an ancient skull found at an elaborate tomb in Ephesos, Turkey, was Cleopatra’s sister. Photo from Gerhard Weber, University of Vienna Austrian ...

Little was known about the Denisovan people until now. Two new studies published in Science and Cell have shed light on a mysterious skull found in China, and in the process have provided insight into ...

Humans have been performing cranial surgery and drilling holes in other people’s skulls for a long time. The oldest example of this procedure, called trepanation, dates to 7,300 B.C., according to ...