The habit of collecting things is pretty common among people. There are several WWE Superstars who have a habit of collecting interesting things. John Cena has a unique car collection, and Matt ...

Illustration of just one of almost a thousand skulls Morton and colleagues collected. Crania Americana by Samuel Morton, CC BY When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection ...

PHILADELPHIA ‒ For years, the Mütter Museum leaned into its appeal as a repository of medical curiosities: dozens of human skulls, fetal specimens and skeletons of people with varying pathologies, for ...

Robbers, prostitutes, and fallen tightrope walkers: the craniums in the Hyrtl Skull Collection in the Mütter Museum at College of Physicians of Philadelphia are fractured remains of imperfect lives.

A 1.5-million-year-old skull fossil from Gona, Ethiopia now has a virtual face, thanks to digital reconstruction.

Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of human remains and loss of life. Human life might be fragile, but our bodies are surprisingly durable. Thus, many cultures have preserved and ...

When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John James Audubon really collected ...