Normally, mounting involves a bloody and very labor intensive process of stripping a skull clean of flesh and meat, leaving ...

A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will ...

A new study published in Nature on November 26 has shed light on the origins, population structures, and kinship systems of the people of Shimao—one of China's most significant late Neolithic ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner removed what appears to be a human skull that was encased in concrete in Boston Friday morning. The skull was unearthed at a construction site ...

Skulls displayed in public 2,000 years ago were intended as a warning to enemies and a celebration of comrades, a new paper argues. By Franz Lidz Some 2,000 years ago, a macabre ritual was observed in ...

The skull dates to around 2300 B.C., the coroner's office said. A human skull that dates back to 2300 B.C has been discovered in Indiana in a "powerful and humbling reminder" of the area's long ...

In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now indicates that ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently released an update to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, one of the most popular image formats for web content. Tom’s Hardware writes that ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

In 2010, DNA from a prehistoric finger bone found in Siberia’s Denisova cave revealed the existence of a new archaic human that shared a common ancestor with both Neanderthals and modern humans.

Finally, we can put a face on a Denisovan. The "Dragon Man" skull was discovered in Harbin, China in 1933 by a local laborer, but remained hidden away until 2018. A new analysis now finds its very ...