Hippopotamuses are some of the largest creatures on earth and the deadliest animals in Africa. These territorial behemoths ...

Bovine brain surgery is pretty rare. So if you were visiting the Neolithic dig site at Champ-Durand in France and you found a roughly 5,200 year-old cow skull with a large hole in it, you’d ...

The cow skull that found its way into Living World Safi's windshield is the one that used to hang above the stage at the Snapping Turtle.Since you can't get to that skull, you have to shift to ...

The snub-nosed cow, known as a Niata, is a now-extinct breed of domesticated cattle once found in South America. Its shortened, broad profile, unique in cows, was more reminiscent of a bulldog ...

A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400- to 5,000-year-old settlement in France contains a surgically created hole on the right side, a new study finds.

April 19 (UPI) --More than 5,000 years ago, a group of people living in what's now France drilled a hole in a cow's head. Researchers believe the ancient bovine skull is the earliest evidence of ...

This skull belonged to a human that's also the earliest known modern human yet discovered in Europe. Per findings published in a research paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution, segments of ...

Humans have been performing cranial surgery and drilling holes in other people’s skulls for a long time. The oldest example of this procedure, called trepanation, dates to 7,300 B.C., accordi… ...

Sea cows once walked on land. Pezosiren leaves no doubt of that. This roughly 48 million year old mammal once trod over prehistoric Jamaica, and looked akin to a hippo with the skull of a manatee.