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 ...

(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, ...