A striking discovery in northern Argentina has reignited curiosity about the origins and cultural practices of ancient civilizations. Construction workers laying a drinking water system in San ...

Our skull is made up of five thin ... but their head may be oddly shaped. If more than one suture closes too soon, your baby's brain may not grow at the appropriate rate. Scaphocephaly.

The skull, which was elongated and shaped like a cone due to cranial bandaging, had suffered a major trauma to the head—the ...

A baby boy born with a "odd shaped head" will need to have his skull removed to ease pressure building up on his brain. Lucas Carter, 11 months, was diagnosed with craniosynostosis, birth defect ...

The oddly-shaped skull has “never been recorded in late Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil assemblages in East Asia”, scientists said. There is no true chin. So researchers believe that HLD 6 ...

About 6,200 years ago, in a village on the northern rim of the Persian Gulf, a young woman died after being struck on the head. She was probably younger than 20.