Look for the sagittal suture – the squiggly line that runs the length of the skull – and note whether ... the more pitted and craggy these bones will be. Forensic anthropologists will compare ...

Old Infant Skeletons Wearing ‘Bone Helmets’, Leaves Them in Shock Archaeologists who were excavating a site in Salango, ...

Back in the 1970s, when archaeologists excavated a skeleton from an ancient graveyard in Belgium, they thought they had found a typical Roman burial. But during a recent reexamination of the bones, ...

HEFEI, Dec. 8 (BSS/Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have discovered dozens of human fossils dating back 300,000 years, which are ...

Roughly 1.77-million-year-old teeth show that slow development in hominids may have had an earlier start than previously thought, according to a new study ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, has shown that the skull bone marrow is an exception to bone marrow aging and actually increases ...

In 1832 five Yale students - including future President William Howard Taft's father - founded one of America's most famous secret societies: Skull and Bones. Since then, the group has come to ...