If you've ever looked at a black-and-white photograph from a bygone age and thought the people looked oddly different from ...

The bumps and contours of the cranium were once believed to reflect the intellectual power and moral strength of the mind ...

Humans evolved large brains and flat faces at a surprisingly rapid pace compared to other apes, likely reflecting the evolutionary advantages of these traits, finds a new analysis of ape skulls by UCL ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why ...

Skulls of 19 Black Americans have returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racial research. Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of ...

Robbers, prostitutes, and fallen tightrope walkers: the craniums in the Hyrtl Skull Collection in the Mütter Museum at College of Physicians of Philadelphia are fractured remains of imperfect lives.

Alice Brown, 15, had lived in New Orleans her whole life before she died in 1871 and became a research subject. Alice was denied a proper burial. Her teenage body was kept for years at the now-defunct ...