Phillip Morfin initially thought he was looking at an animal skull but realized it was a human when he saw the victim's eye sockets Sam Gillette is a writer/reporter at PEOPLE. She first joined ...

Learn how the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 transformed one unfortunate Herculaneum resident’s brain into organic glass ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumors ... They work in much the same way as human fingers, which are manipulated by tendons in the ...

That’s partly because most scientists who physically get right inside skulls to study the brains inside them do so with the brains of non-human animals, so most brain research we hear about ...

Police were investigating an area in Plymouth last week where a human skull was found earlier this month. Plymouth police closed off the area of South Street and Route 3 on Thursday for the ...

Animation of a theropod dinosaur skull, showing muscle forces. Credit: Alec Wilken, Casey Holiday When the team analyzed data from the 3D models, they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

When we talk about human anatomy, the brain and the mind are often used interchangeably ... (like heart and liver), and is situated within the skull, that houses billions of neurons that form ...

A male human skull was found near Forrest Service Road 300 and 315 in the Rampart Range area in October 2020, according to a news release Tuesday from the El Paso County Coroner's Office.

The brain is the part of the central nervous system that is contained within the skull. It is responsible for executive and cognitive functions and regulates the functioning of the other parts of ...

A cascade of changes from dinosaurs to birds When the team analyzed data from the 3D models, they saw that as brain and skull sizes increased in non-avian theropod dinosaurs, muscles shifted into ...