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.

It is the best-preserved stegosaur skull ever found in Europe. Discovered at the Están de Colón quarry, the partial cranium belongs to Dacentrurus armatus. The species was first named 150 years ago, ...

New Orleans honored the remains of 19 African Americans, whose skulls were used for racist research in 19th-century Germany, with a multifaith memorial service and jazz funeral. Dillard University ...

Larry ‘Tripp’ Harrington scored a touchdown in Tucson’s attempted comeback late in the game (Gilbert Alcaraz/AllSportsTucson.com). The Tucson Sugar Skulls looked to get back on track for the playoff ...

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. The skulls of those 19 ...

There, the crania were studied as "specimens" in what was then a proliferating pseudoscience of phrenology. It purported connections between someone's intellect or morality and the size or shape of ...