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.

But no one ever mentioned the skulls. "My ancestors didn't tell me anything about it. Maybe they were frightened," he told 7.30. Mr Tui can sit under a tree and look at the stone monument erected ...

The skulls of Viking-age Swedes, dated between the 10th and 12th centuries, suggest the population of the time was suffering from a wide variety of ailments. Researchers from the University of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A nearly complete skull found in Egypt reveals a new 30-million-year-old species, Bastetodon, a leopard-sized apex predator from the extinct group Hyaenodonta ...