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 ...

Letting cows roam and graze as they please is usually good for them, but it can become dangerous when plastic pollution litters the ground. Veterinarians in India learned this the hard way as they ...

(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, ...