CT scans also revealed a fracture extending from the front of the skull all the way to the rear with no signs of healing. The ...

A pair of archaeologists working at a dig site in an ancient cemetery in western Iran have discovered the skull of a young ...

The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where ...

This dinosaur’s skull was light as air but its mouth was packed with power—and a unique ability to quickly grow teeth. Here’s ...

A rare stegosaurian skull discovery in Spain redefines dinosaur evolution and unveils a new group, Neostegosauria.

Skull fractures can be warning signs of brain injury. Here’s what causes them, how they're diagnosed, and the latest ...

Archaeologists in Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American Revolution ...

Karla Flores was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor. A misplaced MRI found a second, nearly inoperable, tumor on her spine.

Then Las Vegas authorities sent the skull to the National ... will literally pull the bone it is attached to, misshaping it slightly and creating, for example, a heel spur. But how do you go ...

(Credit: Photo by Paula Morad) The temporomandibular joint (TMJ), the hinge that connects the jaw to the skull, also showed frequent abnormalities. Over half of the studied individuals had TMJ ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has shown that the skull bone marrow is an exception to bone marrow aging and actually increases ...

Most bones in our body contain bone marrow, but long bones, such as arms and legs, and flat bones, such as the skull, are formed through different developmental and ossification processes. The mouse ...