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There are significant differences in the skull shapes of the different types of giraffe.
Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist hierarchies but also diversity in the early United States.
Several children have died after attempting these social media crazes.
Conservation programs can give baby animals the best chance of surviving in the wild by feeding them tough foods, which studies of rats suggest makes their skull bones thicker and tougher.
Halloween, with its mix of the macabre and the playful, provides a moment to reflect on how closely life and death are interwoven – especially in the COVID era.
Differences between male and female skulls in some species of gibbon may shed light on how our extinct ancestors lived.
Through science, art and technology, we are able to reconstruct the faces of the dead based on their remains. The researcher who did this work for descendants in Sutherland explains the process.
One stock history of medicine tale is that trepanning is one of the most ancient treatments for migraines.
New evidence suggests that Homo naledi didn’t deliberately deposit their dead in a hidden chamber.
The big question being asked is: where does Homo naledi fit in the evolutionary tree? Assessing the similarity or dissimilarity between fossil skulls has provided a possible clue to the answer.
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Honorary Research Associate, Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in History, University of Leicester
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Senior Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, Australian National University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Flinders University
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor at School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University
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Visual/forensic artist, PhD researcher, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
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Professor of Anthropology, University of Miami
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Director of Conservation (Giraffe Conservation Foundation), and Adjunct Lecturer/Assistant Professor, University College Dublin
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Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)