Police retrieved the skull later on April 6 and examined the scene at All Saints' cemetery, determining that the grave belonged to a married couple, John and Mary Butler, who had died sometime in ...

For instance, a skull found in Harbin, in northern China, is also thought to represent a new species of human. A 2018 study dubbed it homo longi, though the skull has been nicknamed “ Dragon Man.” ...

What they discovered was the oldest skull ever found in Portugal, dating back 400,000 years, and the westernmost fossil of a human skull ever found in Europe.

The Mysterious Skull Doesn’t Fit Any Known Human Species But researchers couldn’t agree on exactly which one. Many thought it was a Neanderthal, a close cousin of modern humans. Also read New ...

Fragments of a human skull may reveal the secrets of an ancient land, ruled by venomous Komodo dragons. The 140-000-year-old bone fragments were discovered buried in a now-submerged land in Indonesia.

This is not the only human skull to be found in a thrift store. In September, a terrifying-looking skull — complete with upper teeth and a glass eye — was found in an Arizona Goodwill.

The skull of Homo erectus, an ancient human ancestor, was discovered over 140,000 years after it was first buried, preserved beneath layers of silt and sand in the Madura Strait between the ...

Phillip Morfin initially thought he was looking at an animal skull but realized it was a human when he saw the victim's eye sockets Sam Gillette is a writer/reporter at PEOPLE. She first joined ...

NCSO said it confirmed the skull belonged to a human and located the more skeletal remains. Plans have been made to safely retrieve the remains on Thursday morning with NCSO detectives who are in ...