A pair of anglers out fishing to feed their families have astonished academics after hooking a 5,000-year-old fossilised dolphin skull from a river 250 miles from the coast. Damian Crispien…
A horrified charity shop manager called in police when she found a grisly human skull left on the donations box. The grim donation - still with a blue glass eye…
An extinct short-snouted alligator species with a skull resembling that of a bulldog nibbled on snails rather than other larger prey when it lived about 230,000 years ago. The groundbreaking…
A model whose face was seriously injured and her eyesight damaged by a leopard during a saucy photoshoot is finally able to see properly after a metal plate was removed…
Experts have studied the skull of a 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor with one of the smallest cranial capacities and say that it was longer and rounder than those of modern…
A 12-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after a pair of scissors pierced his skull as he played with pals. The boy was rushed to hospital with the scissors…
This is the reconstructed face of a Stone Age beauty unseen for 31,000 years ago - and she seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to a famous modern-day screen star.…
A newly unearthed Neanderthal skull has revealed how our ancient cousins could have been around for thousands of years longer than we think, say experts. The skull fragments were discovered…
The earliest-known animal to eat fruit was an ancient bird that lived 120 million years ago, according to new research. Hundreds of animals eat fruit now, but most fruit-bearing plants…
An international team of researchers has authored a study claiming that they may have discovered what is possibly the oldest human fossils in existence in China. Researchers from the National…