Autopsy specialist in the Karen Read trial describes skull fractures in O’Keefe’s assessment.

During the trial concerning John O’Keefe’s death, medical experts indicated that he succumbed to injuries largely due to blunt force trauma and hypothermia. However, the court was still deliberating whether these injuries resulted from murder, an accident, or something else entirely. O’Keefe, a 46-year-old Boston police officer, passed away in 2022. Dr. Irini Scordi-Bello, a […]

Iowa archaeologists unearth 13,000-year-old mastodon skull

Archaeologists in Iowa have unearthed an intact ancient mastodon skull that they hope will shed light on humans’ interactions with the ancient animals. The bones were excavated from the banks of Wayne Creek earlier this month in a process that took about two weeks to complete. The eroded site was first Iowa State Archaeologist (OSA) […]

Atlanta hospital allegedly loses 28-square-inch chunk of man’s skull — and bills him for replacement: lawsuit

” player=”SPdDOYds” platform=”jw-player” playlist=”Toq2ZZoq” playlisttype=”recommendations” /] I have a headache. A Georgia man has filed a lawsuit against an Atlanta hospital after hospital staff allegedly lost about 28 square inches of his skull after a routine surgery, then billed him for a synthetic replacement when it was never found. Fernando Craster was admitted to Emory […]

Mastodon skull excavated from Iowa creek

Listen, this is a big problem. Archaeologists unearthed an ancient mastodon skull from a stream in Iowa this month, the first such find to come from the state. It took excavators 12 days to slowly recover the enormous fossil, which was remarkably well preserved, including a large portion of the once-curved tusk. The mastodon was […]