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Welcome to the Skull Session. One more sleep. National champion Jack Sawyer narrates Ohio States Texas Game trailer, setting the tone for the Buckeyes season opener against the Longhorns pic.twitter.com/FryW8n4A6s — Eleven Warriors (@11W) August 28, 2025 Have a good Friday.  “HERE WE GO.” I cannot believe that Ohio State football returns tomorrow — and I cannot believe that it …

At first glance it looks like nothing of this planet – a creature with a pointed object sticking out of its head, half man, half unicorn.  But scientists are getting closer to unraveling the mystery of the Petralona skull.  The ancient cranium – discovered in Petralona Cave, about 22 miles south–east of Thessaloniki in Greece – is less than 300,000 years …

A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may finally have an identification. A new dating of the minerals that surrounded and grew over the mysterious Petralona skull places its age at 277,000 years at least – and suggesting it is a member of a primitive, extinct hominid that lived alongside …

The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged mingling between anatomically modern humans and our closely related cousins, the Neanderthals. Clearly showing features of both groups, the skull has been dated to around 140,000 years ago; more than 100,000 years older than the only other …

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Petralona skull is a mysterious and important piece in the human evolution puzzle. This image is a reconstruction depicting the skull attached to a cave wall. | Credit: By Nadina, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out …

From a Ceratosaurus that went up for auction in July to a Stegosaurus that broke records last year, it’s not unusual for fossilized bones to go to the highest bidder. One of latest specimens hitting the auction block went extinct relatively recently, but it’s still expected to fetch a high price. A dire wolf skull is predicted to net at …

A recent study published in the Journal of Human Evolution sheds new light on one of the most enigmatic fossils in human evolutionary history—the nearly complete cranium discovered in Petralona Cave, Greece, in 1960. For decades, this fossil has confounded researchers, with its unique characteristics suggesting that it belongs to the genus Homo, yet it does not neatly align with …

A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out of its head is about 300,000 years old and neither human nor Neanderthal, a new study finds. The skull was reportedly discovered attached to the wall of Petralona Cave in northern Greece in 1960. Researchers have since argued about its position on the human family tree and had trouble figuring out its …

Welcome to the Skull Session. Will Lathan Ransom be one of the steals of the draft? I think yes. Lathan Ransom pic.twitter.com/qKOvxSZd25 — Eleven Warriors (@11W) August 22, 2025 Have a good Friday.  THE BEST OF THE BEST. This week, six ESPN college football staff writers (Bill Connelly, David Hale, Adam Rittenberg, Chris Low, Jake Trotter and Paulo Uggetti) compiled …

Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old  Archaeology News Online Magazine Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old  Phys.org Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age  Popular Science 300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor  IFLScience Archaeology breakthrough as mystery of 286,000-year-old skull finally ‘solved’  Daily Express Source …