While an adult human skull is one hard bone, the baby skull is made up of multiple separate bones. This is why babies have the ‘soft spot’ (fontanelle) at the top of their heads.

The results revealed that human skulls, far from being weak, are quite tough and unusually efficient for their size. Our second molars can exert a bite force between 1,100 and 1,300 Newtons, beating ...

Back in the day, in the northern part of modern-day Laos , an early modern human died and its corpse washed into a nearby cave. Sure, it doesn’t sound like a particularly noteworthy event. But ...