More than 80 skeletons were buried without heads. What archaeologists found next left them completely stunned.

The skull known as “Little Foot” was thought to belong to the species Austrolopithecus prometheus for decades, but it could be something else. The morphological features of Little Foot did not align ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These 3D-printed skulls are made with PLA (Polylactic acid) filament. 3D printing is making the dirty business of mounting an ...

Fifteen years ago, Jinan Behnan, PhD, was a graduate student at Lund University in Lund, Sweden, performing a routine dissection that would stay with her for more than a decade. Jinan Behnan, PhD ...

A former funeral home employee has been arrested for reportedly stealing the skull of a woman who passed away in 2001 before she was cremated. Benjamin Hanson, 57, was arrested Wednesday in connection ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is getting a prehistoric holiday gift. Philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt have donated a nearly complete Pachycephalosaurus skull to the ...

Left lateral view of catalog number USNM PAL 803273, a Pachycephalosaurus skull, from the Late Cretaceous Period, Maastrichtian stage (approximately 68 to 66 million years ago), Hell Creek Formation, ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

A human skull was found in Coney Island, police say. The gruesome discovery was made Tuesday afternoon. Police said they got a 911 call at around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday from a man who had been walking on ...

Archaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

During the excavation of a Crusades-era burial ground for medieval knights, archaeologists discovered a mysterious elongated skull. It was determined that the individual to whom the skull belonged had ...