Ancient surgeons may have practiced dangerous skull-opening procedures on cows before operating on people. A previously excavated cow skull from a roughly 5,400- to 5,000-year-old settlement in France ...

A group of veterinarians in Visakhapatnam, India, made a disturbing discovery when they performed surgery on a 6-year-old cow. What they pulled out of the animal's stomach is a harsh reminder of how ...

Humans have been drilling holes into each others’ heads for thousands of years, and, surprisingly, we’ve actually been pretty good at it, even way back when. A re-analysis of a 5,000-year-old cow’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 100 pounds of plastic were removed from the stomach of a pregnant cow in Western India. "The cow was found wandering, ...

(CNN) — Humans have been performing cranial surgery and drilling holes in other people's skulls for a long time. The oldest example of this procedure, called trepanation, dates to 7,300 B.C., ...

In a recently published study, a pair of anthropologists discuss the possible implications of a discovery in a cow skull that was recovered from an archaeological site in western France. The site, ...