Over the last decade, skulls and skeletons appeared in nearly one of every 200 new U.S. logos.

Skulls displayed in public 2,000 years ago were intended as a warning to enemies and a celebration of comrades, a new paper argues. By Franz Lidz Some 2,000 years ago, a macabre ritual was observed in ...

Found in a Greek cave in 1959, the Petralona skull has puzzled scientists for decades. Dated to nearly 700,000 years ago, it displays features of both Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens. Its age and ...

Discovered in China’s Heilongjiang province, the massive Harbin cranium, nicknamed “Dragon Man”, may represent a new human species, Homo longi. Its mix of archaic and modern features places it closer ...

One of the highlight specimens in our Human Evolution gallery is the fossil skull known as Gibraltar 1. It is the first adult Neanderthal skull ever discovered. Model-maker Jez Gibson-Harris and ...

A landlord has been asked to take action after a woman slipped on steep concrete steps and cracked her skull and died. The owner of the property leading to a basement flat in Penzance, has been given ...

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The face of the famous plastered Jericho Skull, which was found in the Palestinian city of Jericho in 1953, has been fully recreated via 3D-imaging technology, revealing exactly what the man to whom ...