A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The fossilized skull of a bird called Vegavis, which lived in the Antarctic some 68.7 million years ago, confirms it was an early member of the waterfowl group. However, the skull also suggests ...

The human skull found in the Petralona Cave in Northern Greece challenges the Out of Africa theory of the origin of Homo sapiens. Credit: Nadina CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikipedia commons The prehistoric human ...

ELLIS COUNTY, Texas — Mammoths roamed across North Texas tens of thousands of years ago, and the head of one of them will soon be on display, as a mammoth skull was uncovered in Ellis County ...

Head injuries are one of the most common causes of disability and death in adults. The injury can be as mild as a bump, bruise (contusion), or cut on the head, or can be moderate to severe in nature ...

(25)]. Briefly, after inducing anesthesia and surgical exposure of the intact skull by skin incision, a 75 g weight was dropped from a height of 30 cm on a silicone cone resting on the exposed skull, ...