Ancient surgeons may have practiced dangerous skull-opening procedures on cows before operating on people. A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400- to 5,000-year-old settlement in ...

Scientists have found an ancient cow skull that appears to have been drilled into by humans, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear. The skull belongs to a cow (Bos taurus) from a Neolithic site ...

Recently, scientists conducted the first analysis of the Niata cow's anatomy and genetics, to find out whether the animal's shortened jaw and skull affected its ability to eat and breathe ...

April 19 (UPI) --More than 5,000 years ago, a group of people living in what's now France drilled a hole in a cow's head. Researchers believe the ancient bovine skull is the earliest evidence of ...

Here’s how it works. About 5,000 years ago, humans used crude stone tools to puncture a hole in a cow's head, making it the earliest known instance of skull surgery in an animal. It's unclear ...

Now, for the first time, a definite example of cranial surgery has been found in an animal: specifically, a nearly complete cow’s skull discovered at a Neolithic site that dates to 3,400 to ...