A team led by China University of Geosciences has described a new species of sauropod, Jinchuanloong niedu, from a partial ...

The foramen magnum, a large opening at the base of the skull, is critical in neurosciences, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeological research. Recent investigations into its morphometry have ...

The syndromes highlight some important basic anatomy—in particular, knowledge of the contents of the cranial nerve exit/entry foramina (table 1) as well as the sites at which cranial nerves are ...

Skull fractures can be warning signs of brain injury. Here’s what causes them, how they're diagnosed, and the latest ...

A fossil skull from China, dating to 55 million years ... This is reflected by a narrower opening (foramen) for the optic nerve in the back of the orbit. For living primates, Kay and Kirk found ...

We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? At a glance, Maba 1 seems like any other skull fragment—and that is the whole problem. Because no other parts of the skull were ever ...

Palaeontologists have analyzed the most complete stegosaurian skull ever found in Europe and rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group of dinosaurs. Palaeontologists from the ...

UFC 315 kicks off with a devastating knockout. Following back-to-back crowd pleasing fights on the early prelims, French-Canadian fighter Marc-Andre Barriault delivered a particularly nasty finish ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The fragmented Maba 1 skull, which had previously been described as belonging to a Neanderthal, is not so Neanderthal after all. Researchers ...

He had a deep cut and bruising to the back of his head. Once she looked at it from the inside, she found multiple skull fractures and brain bleeding. And his body temperature when he arrived at ...