The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Let's be honest: most newborns have funny shaped heads. It's okay to say it, it's perfectly normal. At birth the bones of the skull are in place but not fused together. The places where the bones meet ...

"I was very surprised," Carme Rissech, a biological anthropologist at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Spain, told Live Science in an email. "I had never seen a skull like this before, especially ...

A 1,400-year-old human skull with an almost cube-like shape has emerged from the soil of central Mexico, offering an ...

Metopic craniosynostosis is a rare condition in infants in which a certain part of the skull fuses earlier than it typically would. The condition can range from mild to severe and cause long-term ...

A fossil reveals the existence of Athenar bermani, a new sauropod that redefines the family tree of Utah's giants.

Compared to what we know about other joints and limbs, “we know a lot less on the craniofacial system in terms of mechanobiology,” said University College London biomedical engineer Mehran Moazen, who ...

Surgical repair of craniosynostosis typically occurs during infancy. The procedure has a high success rate with a very low risk of long-term side effects. Most babies go on to live typical, healthy ...