A search for scrap metal in Texas took a gruesome turn when the searcher discovered a cooler containing what appears to be a human skull, according to Houston police and local news reports.

Additional human remains were located on Feb. 4 with the assistance of anthropology students from Western Carolina University ...

When the first Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1519, they claimed to have witnessed a massive temple made of 130,000 human skulls. Archaeologists long believed that ...

An international teamfound evidence of cultural cannibalism among Magdalenian communities in Maszycka Cave, Poland, according ...

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs ...

A SUDDEN population increase in Europe some 20,000 years ago forced our ancient human ancestors to battle it out over resources. And these early humans fought a fight so fierce, they even ate ...

Researchers from MLU analyzed 3D scans of 135 pig skulls and found significant shape changes over just 100 years. Selective ...

A study of skeletons from a cave in Poland has revealed widespread evidence of cut marks and fractures suggestive of ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone ...

A rabbi reacted to the identification of his brother's remains, which were discovered in a field and then stored in the Lancaster County Forensic Center when investigators hit a roadblock.

Witness accounts noted in the study claim the saint had struck his head when a tree had fallen on his way to Naples, Italy.

Archaeologists in England are currently puzzling over a 2,000-year-old comb that was carved from the back of a human skull.