The residents of the Moroccan site weren’t quite the Homo sapiens of today; their skulls were less rounded and more elongated than ours, perhaps signaling differences between our brains and theirs.

A noise dubbed the ‘most terrifying sound in the world’ that was last thing people heard before death was caught on doorbell ...

It purported connections between someone's intellect or morality and the size or shape of their skull, with some doctors theorizing superiority of one race over another. Sponsor Message The skulls ...

His only recorded sickness was diarrhea. He was one of 19 Black patients who died at the hospital in December 1871 and January 1872, and whose skulls were sent to Germany to be studied by a doctor ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? At a glance, Maba 1 seems like any other skull fragment—and that is the whole problem. Because no other parts of the skull were ever ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The fragmented Maba 1 skull, which had previously been described as belonging to a Neanderthal, is not so Neanderthal after all. Researchers ...

The university received the individuals' skulls May 15 from the University of Leipzig, where they had been housed for more than 150 years. On May 31, each of the 19 people – some of whom were ...

It was determined that the infant suffered a skull fracture. Both women were booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Complex. Bail for Disheekia McDowell is set at $160,000, and bail for ...

The remains of 19 African Americans were wrongfully taken from New Orleans in 1872 and sent to Leipzig, Germany, for racially biased scientific research. (Jacob Cochran / Dillard University) ...

Among the findings are a 140,000-year-old Homo erectus skull and over 6,000 animal fossils buried beneath the Madura Strait. Scientists have discovered a submerged site in Indonesia that may be the ...

Representatives from Leipzig contacted the city in 2023 about their existence in Germany, where the university houses a skull collection dating to the 1800s. The school is in the process of ...

Buying and selling human skulls is totally legal in Germany. Why is this so? And where are the skulls from? This reportage reveals the questionable nature of this trade in skulls — especially ...