HUBEI, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The reexamination of a prehistoric skull led researchers to believe that humanity may have began 400,000 years earlier than previously thought. A badly crushed ...

Humans have been modifying their skull shapes since prehistory, but the discovery of a cube-shaped skull has researchers ...

He lived hundreds of thousands of years ago, eking out an existence in what is today central China. Sporting a squat neck and a big brain, he likely wielded tools made of stone and hunted or scavenged ...

The case came to light after a photograph showing a man holding the skull appeared on Facebook earlier this year.

The fracture is shown in various views. The skull fracture in this specimen starts at the anterior part of the frontal bone and extends diagonally to the sagittal border of the left parietal bone.

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Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

BEIJING (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) — The "Dragon Man" skull may help unravel an evolutionary mystery, according to researchers. A fossilized skull, unearthed from the depths of a well in China's Black ...

The skull's unique appearance was the result of intentional cranial deformation, a practice where flat boards and bandages ...

WASHINGTON -- The first people to cross a land bridge from Asia and settle in the Americas may have been descendants of an ancient group who once lived in Japan, according to a new study. Researchers ...

The average home -- manor, farm, or otherwise -- contains only the skulls which are still attached to living inhabitants. This is almost certainly true of your home, at least. (If not, well, get in ...

There ​​have been many curious medical techniques introduced by our ancestors, but one that tickles scientists' brains (and other experts alike) the most is trepanation. This method, which involves ...