The head, known as a tsantsa, was authenticated to be sent back to the Ecuador government Digital News Writer, PEOPLE A shrunken head that was used in the 1979 dark comedy Wise Bloods was recently ...

A remarkably well-preserved shrunken head has just been authenticated by DNA analysis, which provides strong evidence that anecdotal accounts of violent head-hunting in South America were true. The ...

Researchers at a Georgia University have authenticated a "shrunken head" that has been on display for decades. The tsantsa, as it's known in Amazonian languages, was also featured in the 1979 film ...

For the past several weeks, I've been processing the extensive Hartwig Kuhlenbeck collection. Kuhlenbeck, born in Germany in 1897, was Professor of Anatomy and, later, Emeritus Professor at Woman's ...

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Researchers have used computer scans to successfully authenticate a real shrunken human head that has been stored at a museum. The researchers, from institutions in Canada and Ecuador, say the ...

There’s a popular and simple magic trick involving multiplying balls: The magician holds a ball, usually red, between her thumb and index finger. They flick their wrist and suddenly, a second ball ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Head shrinking is rumored to have occurred all over the world, but documented only among a few indigenous South American tribes living in Peru and Ecuador. To the Jivaroan people, a head taken from an ...

On a UNC game day, the moment you step into Shrunken Head Boutique, a family-owned merchandise store on Franklin Street, fans are packed wall to wall with arms full of Tar Heel memorabilia. Melissa ...