A newly discovered cell helps pythons digest entire skeletons—and might be present in other bone-eating predators, too.

Research into the intestinal cells of Burmese pythons has revealed the existence of a previously unknown cell type, ...

Last summer police found a partial cranium behind a Cromwell carwash. The cranium appeared to be old — at least 50 years. Police suspected the skull was stolen from the century-old crypt of the ...

[See Images of the Knight's Family Crypt] Last month, archaeologists on hand at new building construction site unearthed a medieval skeleton under a parking lot in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Macabre crypt containing UK's highest amount of human remains is packed with skulls The creepy crypt lies beneath the floors of St Leonard's Church in Hythe, Kent, and is home to Britain's largest ...

Skulls and bones stored at a church date from 1250 to as recently as 1900, ... Rothwell bone crypt: Skulls dated from 1250 to 1900. Published. 9 August 2016. Share. close panel. Share page.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, ENGLAND—According to a BBC News report, archaeologists have investigated five skulls out of the remains of some 2,500 people held in a thirteenth-century crypt under the aisle ...

The crypt is what’s known as a memento mori (Latin for “remember you will die”), a physical reminder that life is finite and that we all have an appointment with Death. Your appointment may ...

Maxim Bonte / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0. In the town of Niš, Serbia stands a stone wall with human skulls embedded throughout it, known appropriately as Skull Tower. The structure dates back to 1809 ...

This strange, skull- and skeleton-­filled place made me wonder: Could the ugliness of death be transformed into something beautiful? The bone installations at the Capuchin Crypt are not the work of ...

Skulls and bones stored under a church date from 1250 to as recently as 1900, tests have revealed. Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, Northamptonshire - home to one of only two 13th Century crypts ...