The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

Let's start with the anatomy lesson. The skull is not one solid bone. There are 22 separate bones, and each one is divided into several sections.

A 146,000-year-old skull, nicknamed thedragon man, has long intrigued scientists. Discovered in the 1930s in Harbin, China, the skull was initially believed to represent a new, elusive species of ...

A dentist in London cracked the secret of how Leonardo da Vinci placed a perfectly proportionate human figure sketch inside a ...

The temporal bone is one of the thickest bones in the skull. In this article, we look at the structure and function of this bone and the injuries that can affect it.

It’s impossible to overstate the importance of our brain. The organ, housed inside the skull and protected by a bony covering called the cranium, controls thought, memory, emotion, vision, and ...

Scientists have used 3-D technology to unlock the secrets of a prehistoric marine reptile’s skull. The huge marine ichthyosaur skull, which is almost 200 million years old, was discovered in a U ...

The skull was put on display beginning Jan. 2 at The Etches Collection Museum of Jurassic Marine Life in Kimmeridge, ... Scientists hope the skull will shed further light on this anatomy, and, ...

A researcher at Mount Sinai thought he was testing a piece of the composer’s skull. Later he learned he might have been mistaken. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Monday. We’ll revisit the ...