Viking life wasn’t just tough, it was often chronically painful. For proof, all you need to do is examine their skulls. That’s what researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg did with ...

In a rare find, a team of scientists in Egypt uncovered a nearly complete skull that offers insight into a not-before-discovered apex predator species that lived 30 million years ago. Published on ...

Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old “top apex” predator. “Just as we were about to conclude our work, a team member spotted something remarkable —a set ...

Now, an international team of paleontologists has found a new piece of the puzzle — a nearly complete skull of a previously unidentified species of hyaenodonta. The discovery could bring ...

“His excited shout brought the team together, marking the beginning of an extraordinary discovery: a nearly complete skull of an ancient apex carnivore, a dream for any vertebrate paleontologist.

For the current study, she and Dr Ashleigh Haruda from Oxford University analyzed 135 skulls from three different breeds: Deutsches Edelschwein, Deutsches Landschwein – and wild boars, who acted as a ...

MURPHY, N.C. — A human skull discovered near Burrell Mountain, North Carolina, has been identified as belonging to Kamron Peter Rondon, a 35-year-old man who was never reported missing ...

“The shot fragment in my forehead is lodged in my skull and doctors have decided to leave it, as it will accelerate the healing process,” she said. However, she assured fans she “should ...

including from skulls and limb bones. They identified evidence of human manipulation (as opposed to features caused by natural processes or animals) on 68% of these fragments. The researchers ...

Babies’ skulls consist of plates of bone, separated by soft areas called sutures. In the first six to 18 months of life, the sutures close (fuse) and the skull becomes one piece. Craniofacial ...