This discovery, published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, highlights the unique characteristics of this gecko, including its small size (about 2.5 inches long), brown color, ...
Investigators have determined that a skull found in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago.
So why was the skull in Batavia ... often used by medical students studying anatomy. A student at a medical school in St. Charles was killed by rioters in 1849 after he stole a woman’s ...
A skull found in the wall of an Illinois home ... In the 1800s, doctors were desperate to learn more about human anatomy, so they often paid top dollar for fresh corpses on which to perform ...
One of the 20th-century's biggest quests was to find the “missing link,” a being who connected humans to their pre-historic ancestors. It was also the height of scientific racism.
The skull was later donated to the Batavia Historical ... death might have purchased her remains to learn more about human anatomy. The City of Batavia paid for Granger's burial at a cemetery ...