Eric and Wendy Schmidt donated a rare, $1.7 million dinosaur skull to the Smithsonian, where it will be on view this December ...

From broad cheekbones and a flexible back to a small prefrontal cortex, here’s everything an anatomist thinks makes the ...

Specimen found in South Africa was widely thought to be member of ape-like human ancestor family that lived nearly 2 million ...

Flat-topped skulls have previously been unearthed in and around territory associated with the Mayans, who never established a ...

Taking after '90s CG imagery like those Bryce 3D renders ⁠—you'll recognize the visuals if not the name⁠—its characters look ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Long before genetic testing and genome browsers, a small child was laid to rest in a shallow grave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel. Today that youngster, known as Skhūl, is at the ...

For every 70 people needing corneal implants, there is only one donor cornea available. Now, a 3D printer can make hundreds of perfect copies from that single donor cornea. So far ...

In a remarkable discovery that has captured the attention of archaeologists worldwide, a 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull was ...

A 1,400-year-old cube-shaped skull found in Mexico could provide new insights into Mesoamerican cranial modification ...

A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.

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