A Stone Age skull discovered in a cave in Italy is the oldest evidence of artificial cranial modification ever found in ...

But the flattening on the back of the skull, which belonged to a 3- to 4-year-old child, is simply the result of the cultural practice of head shaping, Cristian Sebastián Melián, director of the ...

The duck-billed dinosaur Parasaurolophus is best known for the tube that grows out of its head, and the well-preserved skull offers more clues about the crest's evolution.

Fossils from the skull of a Neanderthal child that likely had Down syndrome shed light into the collaborative and communal caregiving that likely helped the child survive to the age of 6 ...

But the flattening on the back of the skull, which belonged to a 3- to 4-year-old child, is simply the result of the cultural practice of head shaping, Cristian Sebastián Melián, director of the ...