Bigwigs in a more than 600-year-old South American population were easy to spot. Their artificially elongated, teardrop-shaped heads screamed prestige, a new study finds. During the 300 years ...

'Doubling Down with the Derricos' : Deon and Karen Are 'Angry' Diez's Head Shape 'Was Overlooked' The couple continues to search for answers about their 4-year-old son's elongated head shape ...

Head binding to change the shape of a baby’s head is surely one of the most radical forms of socially imposed body modification. Tightly binding an infant’s head produces highly unusual skull ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the intriguing cone-shaped skull of a young woman who also suffered mysterious head trauma.

Modern humans’ crania are globular-shaped, rather than elongated. This shape didn’t appear immediately in our species; we know that 300,000-year-old modern human fossils from Morocco have ...

The practice has led to some unusual-looking skulls – flat shapes, elongated cones, and rounded heads. However, conical head shapes seem to be the best preferred and have been seen in various ...

The claim: Eye sockets in elongated skulls found in Latin America prove alien origin. In the late 1920s, ... The head shape is not normal. But it's still human.

The skull, which was elongated and shaped like a cone due to cranial bandaging, had suffered a major trauma to the head—the cause is still unclear.