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

A striking discovery in northern Argentina has reignited curiosity about the origins and cultural practices of ancient ...

During the remainder of gestation, the bones take on the characteristic shape of the human skull. Neurocranium: The neurocranium is the portion of the skull that covers the brain. This is made ...

This study provides a greater understanding of human disease and evolution ... including the shape of the base of the skull. The evolutionary changes underlying these features were significant ...

The physical transformation of the human cranium over ... but fossil adults had very different skulls, we can rule out that brains have changed significantly in shape, says Zollikofer.

These findings help explain the diversity of human head shapes and may also offer important clues about the genetic basis of conditions that affect the skull, such as craniosynostosis. Researchers ...

An ancient skull found in China is like nothing scientists have ever seen. The teen's head shape doesn't fit with any of the early human relatives seen to date. If it's an undiscovered human ...

Languages: English, Spanish Skulls that may have been intentionally deformed into the shape of hearts have been discovered among human remains at an archaeological site in Mexico. Researchers from ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) and the Universities of Helsinki and Barcelona have identified a single nucleotide change key in the evolution of human skull morphology ...