They are located to the side of (lateral to) the temporal lobes of the brain’s cerebral cortex. The temporal bones ensure ...

It helps form the walls of the eye socket, or orbital cavity, as well as the roof, sides, and interior of the nasal cavity ...

"CT scanning allows us to look inside fossils - in this case, we could see long canals within the skull bones that originally contained blood vessels and nerves," said Dr Porro. Fossil preserves ...

The same crack-like space appears in the upper arm bone (humerus), seen just above the skull in the main image ... as seen here. Inside were often gourd containers, textiles, foodstuffs, and ...

Erich was carrying a human skull on a stick. Julie asked where Erich found his new toy. He led her to a wooded area in their backyard. It was littered with human bones. That evening when Herb came ...

The bone can rapidly deteriorate if it's not preserved. To keep it healthy, the surgeon implanted part of Smith's skull in her abdomen, just under her skin. There, Smith's immune system could help ...

Researchers have discovered new fossils of the extinct Caribbean monkey Antillothrix bernensis in the Dominican Republic. The ...

Turin doctors managed to operate on a pregnant woman with rare tumour in the cartilage inside her skull, enabling her to ...

And our skull protects our brain and eyes ... on the outside and the advantage and disadvantage of having your bones inside your body. This short film will be relevant for teaching the topic ...

Researchers at UTHealth Houston have been awarded an $8.1 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to examine skeletal stem cells as potential drivers of craniofacial bone diseases and ...

Accompanying Prof Stratford and the skull was Ronald Clarke ... where there had been blood vessels inside Little Foot's bones, which normally would require physically slicing up a specimen ...