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

The burial site Chega Sofla has many skeletons with elongated skulls, likely from a practice called cranial bandaging where people use wrapped fabric to permanently reshape the skull in infancy and ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

A 1,400-year-old human skull with an almost cube-like shape has emerged from the soil of central Mexico, offering an ...

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

Let's be honest: most newborns have funny shaped heads. It's okay to say it, it's perfectly normal. At birth the bones of the skull are in place but not fused together. The places where the bones meet ...

The vomer bone is a thin, unpaired bone located in the center of the nasal cavity. This small, trapezoidal bone is part of the nasal septum, the middle wall of the nasal respiratory cavity. It ...

Falls, vehicle accidents, and assaults are the top causes of skull fractures [1]. Nausea, seizures, and consciousness changes may indicate brain injury [2]. Pediatric skull fractures often require ...