So excited doesn't quite capture it MARIAN FAA: Three thousand kilometres away in the PNG province of Madang, a descendant of explorer Miklouho Maclay is waiting for the skulls to arrive.

Not only that, the couple had a trophy of their own, the skull of a green sea turtle, and it was with them aboard that very plane. The passengers in the row ahead were sure to have listened with ...

A Russian T-80 tank, transformed into a pillar of flaming wreckage by a Ukrainian drone near Pokrovsk on or before Saturday, wasn’t just a tragedy for any Russians in the tank and a spectacle ...

Latheef's body was found on a chair in the drawing room with his skull shattered in pieces. Latheef's wife, Sajitha, was allegedly attacked from behind by the accused while in the kitchen ...

In the fossil-rich sands of the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt, archaeologists have uncovered one of the most complete skulls ever found from a formidable family of predators that roamed the Earth roughly ...

Why did prehistoric people on the Iberian Peninsula sever the heads of some of their dead and put iron nails in their skulls? This question has been debated by archaeologists for years and we ...

In an era before antibiotics or modern dental care, such conditions could become serious, even life-threatening. The skulls examined in this study came from one of Sweden’s earliest Christian ...

Languages: English. The ancient Iberian practice of severing the heads of the dead, driving a giant nail through their skulls and putting them on display may have been more complex than we thought.

An analysis of the origins of seven severed skulls with nails through them shows that some people treated this way in Iron Age Spain were local while others came from afar.

Vikings have a reputation as hardy, healthy folk. But scanning 15 of their skulls with modern imaging revealed they likely lived with a host of maladies. CT skull scans revealed that 15 individuals — ...

This is shown in a study from the University of Gothenburg in which Viking skulls were examined using modern X-ray techniques. About a year ago, researchers published a report based on the ...

A newly-described fossil skull has given paleontologists their best look yet at a hyaenodont with a meat-cleaving bite. Found in the 30 million-year-old rock of Egypt’s Fayum Basin, the ...