Archaeologists in Iran have unearthed the unusual skull of a young woman who died in a traumatic incident over 6,000 years ago. The woman's cone-shaped cranium revealed that she had been killed by ...

Eurasia and Africa were once populated by 13-tonne, 4 metre tall elephants, but their evolution has long remained a puzzle. A giant fossil skull from Kashmir paves way to unlocking their mysteries.

Over two decades ago, a team from the University of Jammu uncovered the giant fossilized skull of an extinct elephant species in India’s Kashmir Valley. The remains were uncovered along with 87 ...

This week, a fossilized skull offers new clues about a mysterious prehistoric human species, astronomers unlock missing matter, methane fuels sea spiders’ diet, and more.

At a prehistoric cemetery in Iran, archaeologists have discovered a skull belonging to a young woman who lived more than 6,000 years ago. Her cranium had been purposefully molded into a cone shape ...

A prehistoric discovery is now complete in one southern Iowa community. The University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist says they have finished a 12-day excavation of a mastodon in Wayne ...

The skull emoji, too, is already becoming overused. In the sentence I just wrote a Washington Post op-ed on Gen Z slang 💀, I’m not using the emoji to cue laughter, as I once might have.

The skull emoji is often used in text to humorously convey the phrase ‘I’m dead’ to describe if users find something hilarious, but it can also mean the feeling of tiredness.

Giant prehistoric elephant skull from India belongs to mysterious extinct species. Oct 14, 2024. Rare fossils of extinct elephant document the earliest known instance of butchery in India.