When living things are faced with dramatic shifts in the world around them, they sometimes rapidly adapt to better survive.

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

The Harbin skull (left) and the Dali skull (right).

The Doctor Who actor first worked with a real human skull during a production of Hamlet in 2008 where he starred as the titular character, who laments the death of Yorick while talking to his skull.

New-agers have associated the skulls with the belief that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar runs out on Dec. 21, 2012, when it reaches the end of a 5,126-year cycle. According to this theory, all 13 ...

News Greater Manchester News Worsley A human skull, a murder investigation and decades for the horrific truth to be revealed The gruesome discovery was made in a peat bog near Worsley 66 years ago ...

But no real skulls were harmed in the making of this photo. It's actually an X-ray image of a cluster of galaxies known as the Perseus Cluster, captured by the Chandra Observatory.

In most schools, biology classes typically rely on pictures and plastic models of the human skeleton. It's hard to imagine that real human bones would still be used as teaching aids today, but that's ...

Originally published in December 2002, the Popular Mechanics article “The Real Face of Jesus” created a face for the most famous historical figure in human history. Since then, science has ...

Websites like Skulls Unlimited list full human skeletons for upward of $7,000, and fetal skeletons for more than $4,000.