The Tasmanian tiger, which went extinct almost a century ago, had a rare combination for a carnivorous mammal: a huge skull ...

New CT scans of rare dodo skulls reveal how the extinct bird sensed its world and challenge myths about its intelligence.

A novel ‘immune organ’ in skull bone marrow directs brain defense and may offer a new way to fight brain cancer and ...

To flesh out the features on the so-called Jericho Skull, archaeologists at the British Museum have worked for more than two years to reconstruct the face of a man whose skull had been reshaped by ...

An ancient skull is baffling scientists because it looks unlike any known human ancestor. The mystery 300,000-year-old skull of a child about 12 or 13 years old was first uncovered in Hualongdong in ...