It sounds like something from a horror movie: A disease that eats through bone, dissolving the fused plates of the skull like bubbling acid. But a type of brain cancer called glioblastoma actually ...

Falls, vehicle accidents, and assaults are the top causes of skull fractures [1]. Nausea, seizures, and consciousness changes may indicate brain injury [2]. Pediatric skull fractures often require ...

The vomer bone is a thin, unpaired bone located in the center of the nasal cavity. This small, trapezoidal bone is part of the nasal septum, the middle wall of the nasal respiratory cavity. It ...

A new reconstruction of the 375-million-year-old fossil fish Tiktaalik -- a close relative of limbed vertebrates -- used micro-CT to reveal bones still embedded in matrix. The reconstruction shows ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s career as a knight—he died in battle.