The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

For generations, the skull in art and jewelry has been dominated by a single, powerful image: our own. The human skull, a ...

Artist Damien Hirst has unveiled a diamond-encrusted human skull worth £50m - said to be the most expensive piece of contemporary art. The 18th Century skull is entirely covered in 8,601 jewels, while ...

Cabrera previously unveiled four giant sculptures at American Dream, also in the luxury wing, known as The Avenue. They include a bronze bull, a 3,000-pound titanium horse, a stainless steel bull ...

Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, by John B. Ravenal, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/University of Washington Press, 68 pp.; $18.95, paper Most historical narratives of ...

A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, according to new ...