A partially excavated human skeleton. For 400 years, a group of Indigenous people living in Japan deliberately deformed the skulls of their infant children, a new study suggests. The Hirota people ...

At birth, Chesni LaRoe faced a life-altering condition that had an easy solution. Born with a deformed skull, the toddler needed a specialized helmet called a DOC Band to reshape her head. However, ...

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A 1,600-year-old double burial discovered by archaeologists in Poland is some of the earliest evidence of Huns in Europe and the oldest Hunnic burial in Poland, a new study finds. The Huns were ...

This is an artificially deformed female skull from Altenerding, an Earyl Medieavel site in Bavaria. Skull deformations like this were formerly attributed to the Huns. However, the new palaeogenomic ...

An actor who endured a decade-long battle with an undetected brain tumour, which grew to the size of a lime and deformed his skull, has spoken of his relief at surviving the ordeal to complete his ...

The baby, who had a “deformed skull,” died at a hospital, authorities say. meshaphoto Getty Images/iStockphoto A father is accused of killing his 1-month-old son, who was taken to a hospital with a ...