It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...

A digital reconstruction of a one-million-year old skull in China called Yunxian 2 suggested that our species started to emerge half a million years earlier than previously believed, according to a ...

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 ...

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s worth of chipmunk and vole specimens from Chicago, researchers discovered ...

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals. When ...

Some neurosurgeons are testing an acrylic prosthesis that lets them peer into patients’ heads with ultrasound. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata visited Lenox Hill Hospital in New York earlier this year and ...