Examination of the cone-headed skull revealed diagnostic features that allowed the team to determine that the skeleton belonged to a young woman—likely less than 20 years old.

Allegheny County police said their detectives were called to a home in Pitcairn on Wednesday following a report that a human skull was found. Police were called to the 700 block of Seventh Street.

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.

Part of a human skull found on a Northern California beach more than 32 years ago was just identified as a woman who went missing five years earlier.

Archaeologists believe a skull found in a Hungarian basilica may belong to King Matthias Corvinus, a 15th-century monarch known for his reforms and legacy.

UK police have seized a 4-foot-long caiman – a carnivorous reptile native to Central and South America – during a drugs raid in Essex, the force said on Friday.

Four-foot-long caiman found and seized by police at property in Essex The reptile was among several items seized by police as two people were arrested on suspicion of drugs and weapons offences.

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This caiman - the same family as alligators but smaller - was recently relocated by Toronto Animal Services from a Toronto home where it was being kept as a pet to a reptile sanctuary. Photo by ...

DNA tests identified a skull found during home renovations in 1978 as that of an Indiana teen who died after childbirth in 1866. Authorities say Esther Granger was likely the victim of grave robbing.

They call him Bold and he is Brazil's most famous jaguar, seen on social media diving into rivers to capture a caiman and wrestle his prey ashore.