EditorialSila Hoso, a 7-year-old Palestinian child who was seriously wounded in an Israeli attack on the town of Deir al-Balah, Dair EL-Balah, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territory - 14 Aug 2024
EditorialA carved skull sits on a bookshelf on the top level of the two-level study at Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s home in Atlanta on Jan. 14, 2023. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)
EditorialLaura Emmert, a lab and field technician at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum in Tennessee, brushes away dirt from a tapir skull, in Gray, Tenn. on Sept. 1, 2022. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialItems that Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble has collected that incorporate skull imagery, at Daughters of St. Paul convent in Boston, May 12, 2021. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialA page from from Morton’s “Crania Americana,” one of a series of works outlining a supposed hierarchy of intelligence based on skull size, with Europeans on top. (via National Library of Medicine via The New York Times)
EditorialPaleontologist Paul Sereno, who led the team that discovered the Carcharodontosaurus 1996, presents his findings in New York on May 16, 1996. (David Skull/The New York Times)