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The Taung Child is the fossilized skull and natural brain endocast of a juvenile Australopithecus africanus discovered at Taung, South Africa, in 1924. Raymond Dart described it in 1925, identifying a combination of ape-like cranial traits and evidence for habitual upright posture. As the first reco...

Selam is the nickname of DIK-1-1, a juvenile Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered at Dikika in Ethiopia and dated to about 3.3 million years ago. The specimen preserves an unusually complete skull together with parts of the shoulders, vertebral column, ribs, pelvis, arms, and legs, making...

Sahelanthropus tchadensis is an extinct primate known from late Miocene fossils discovered in Chad, including a distorted but relatively complete cranium nicknamed Toumai. The remains are approximately 6 to 7 million years old and combine a small braincase with reduced canine teeth and facial featur...

The Jericho Skull is a plaster reconstruction of a Neolithic human skull discovered at Tell es-Sultan (Jericho). Dating from approximately 8000 to 6000 BC, it represents an early example of portraiture in the Levant. The skull’s significance lies in its potential role within ritual practices and off...

Proconsul africanus is an extinct primate from the Early Miocene of East Africa, known particularly from fossils found on Rusinga Island in Kenya. It combined an ape-like absence of an external tail with limb and trunk features suited to movement along the tops of branches rather than the suspensory...

Homo longi is a proposed species of archaic human based on CAGS-HV-PA-01, a nearly complete skull reportedly discovered near Harbin in northeastern China. Researchers formally described the specimen in 2021 and reported that it was at least 146,000 years old. Nicknamed Dragon Man, the skull combines...

Flat-faced hominin discovered in Kenya in 1999 and dated to approximately 3.5 million years ago; its distinctive cranial morphology complicates the view of a single linear human ancestry for that period.

Andrewsarchus mongoliensis is an extinct Eocene mammal known principally from AMNH 20135, a very large skull discovered in Mongolia in 1923 during an American Museum of Natural History expedition. Because no associated skeleton is known, its body proportions, locomotion, diet, and total size remain...

The skull of Thomas Aquinas is preserved as a holy relic in the Church of the Jacobins in Toulouse, France. Thomas Aquinas was an influential 13th-century Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and theologian whose works became central to Catholic theology and education. Following his canonization, h...

The Head of Saint John the Baptist is a Christian relic housed within the Amiens Cathedral in France. According to historical accounts, the relic was brought to Amiens in 1206 by Wallon de Sarton, who reportedly acquired it in Constantinople following the Fourth Crusade. Claimed to be the skull of J...

The skull of Saint Valentine is a religious relic displayed at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, Italy. The relic features a small skull crowned with flowers, accompanied by an inscription identifying it as that of the early Christian martyr Saint Valentine. Displayed within a glass r...

Tsaagan mangas is a species of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous epoch. Described in 2006 from a well-preserved skull and neck skeleton found in the Djadokhta Formation, it is a close relative of Velociraptor. The fossil material helped paleontologists...

The skull of Saint Thomas More is a Christian relic traditionally identified as the head of the English lawyer, author, statesman, and former lord chancellor executed in 1535. It is kept in the Roper family vault at St Dunstan's Church in Canterbury, where More's daughter Margaret Roper was buried....

The Skull of Mary Magdalene at Saint-Maximin is a Christian relic kept in the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene in Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume, Provence, France. It is venerated by Catholics as the skull of Mary Magdalene, although the attribution is a matter of religious tradition rather than a un...

For the Love of God is a 2007 sculpture by British artist Damien Hirst in the form of a human skull cast in platinum. The surface is set with 8,601 diamonds, while the original skull's teeth were incorporated into the work; a 52.4-carat pink diamond is positioned on the forehead. The sculpture combi...

The Skull of Saint Valentine in Rome is a Christian relic kept at the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. It is venerated as the skull of Saint Valentine, a Christian martyr associated with the third century, with its identity grounded in religious tradition rather than a modern historical or foren...

The object identified as Mozart’s skull is held by the Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, Austria. It is traditionally claimed to be the skull of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who died in 1791, but the attribution has not been established conclusively. Scientific examinations have produced discus...