The skeleton of a woman buried with a thin metal sickle around her neck, possibly to stop her returning from the dead, has been found.. The research team from the Archaeology Institute of Nicolaus ...

In science class, you probably learned that the human skeletal system contains 206 bones—but that’s only after it’s done growing. We start our lives with much more osseous matter than we end ...

Evolutionary surprise: Freedom of neck played major role in human brain evolution, research suggests. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 07 ...

In 1929, archaeologists discovered the 140,000-year-old skeleton of a young girl in Skhūl Cave. The researchers believed her ...

Oldest Skeleton of Human Ancestor Found. There was never a chimp-like missing link between humans and today’s apes, says a new fossil-skeleton study that could rewrite evolutionary theory.

Earlier work on Tiktaalik showed that its head bones weren’t fused to its shoulders — it had the first known neck. Another trend to look for in the shift to land is a tougher skull with fewer ...

The team scanned and reconstructed Discokeryx’s skull and neck in three dimensions. They then compared it with modern head-butters: muskoxen, argali mountain sheep and Himalayan blue sheep.