Anthropologist Justyna Kargus said the skeleton's skull showed signs that the man who is thought to have been around 50 years old when he died had suffered from some form of trauma before his death.

Can you find Dippy's nostrils? What feature does Diplodocus share with humans but few other dinosaurs? Rotate, zoom in and explore the features of this popular dinosaur.

Even more than high-altitude mountaineers, cave divers work under ... blue holes and the threats they face. Veteran cave diver Brian Kakuk lifts a more than 3,000-year-old Cuban crocodile skull ...

The skull of a prehistoric "giant goose" has been discovered in Australia. It belongs to a now extinct giant flightless bird that weighed 230kg (36 stone) - about five times as much as an emu.

As a child, the future president acquired a marine animal's skull, which became the first specimen in his natural history ...

However, an autopsy found an 18.6-centimeter (7.3-inch) swordfish bill, known as a rostrum, lodged in its skull. Blue sharks (Prionace glauca) and swordfish (Xiphias gladius) are both ...

The team studied the skulls of 132 different carnivore species, focusing on the trade-off between bite force and bite ...

On Wednesday, paleontologists near Grande Prairie pulled its 272-kilogram skull from the ground. They call it “Big Sam.” The adult Pachyrhinosaurus is the second plant-eating dinosaur to be ...

To be or not to be?” In Shakespeare’s play, the image of Hamlet holding a skull is almost as famous as the question he asks.

The infant suffered four distinct skull fractures, brain damage extending ... the baby’s lips were blue and his eyes were rolling back. The mother, carrying the baby, walked with it to nearby ...

A young bear that suffers regular seizures is undergoing pioneering brain surgery at a wildlife park in Kent. Boki, a European brown bear, has hydrocephalus, a build-up of fluid inside his skull ...