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Pixar is getting scientific with its upcoming films; they are set to explore the land of dinosaurs and delve into the human mind.

Filmmakers announced the projects at the D23 Expo 2011 on  Saturday while executives promoted all of the Disney/Pixar work.

The dinosaur film, still untitled, will be released during the holidays of 2013.   Bob Peterson, who co-directed and did a voiceover for the Pixar hit Up, will direct the film.

The dino flick was inspired by Peterson’s trip to the World’s Fair in New York when he was a kid.  There, he saw animatronic dinosaurs created by Walt Disney and they “made a big impression on [him],” he said.

The film explores what may have happened if the asteroid missed Earth and the dinosaurs continued to live.

The other half of Up‘s direction, Pete Docter will take on the other Pixar film about the brain.

The film will attempt to explain in humorous terms how the brain works in various ways.

“Most of us have had the experience of being around someone and thinking what is going on in their head,” said Docter. “This film will attempt to answer that question.”

This flick is expected to be in theaters by 2014.

OK. This is seriously messed up. Beyond horror movie messed up. More messed up than the French lady that froze her dead kids. Just. Messed. Up.

San Antonio police claim that a woman accused of gruesomely killing her 3-week-old infant also ate some of the baby boy’s body parts. Authorities claim Otty Sanchez ate three of the baby’s toes, part of its brain, then stabbed herself twice.

Police say they found the baby with “three of his toes chewed off, his face torn away and his head was severed,” USA Today reports.

Sanchez’s husband, Scott Buchholtz, told authorities his wife, who was was diagnosed with post-partum depression and was going to be admitted to a hospital to treat her depression, should be executed to pay for her crimes.

“She was a sweet person and I still love her, but she needs to pay the ultimate price for what she has done,” Buchholtz told the San Antonio Express-News. “She needs to be put to death for what she has done.”

Family members told authorities Sanchez’s health had been suffering in the week leading up to the death of her baby. Sanchez told police she’d been hearing voices and killed her baby at the request of the devil.

Sanchez has been charged with capital murder and is being held on $1 million bail. She is also being treated in hospital for her self-inflicted stab wounds. If convicted, Sanchez could be given the death penalty.

Even police were struck by the heinous degree of the crime, reportedly barely speaking to one another while searching the accused’s home.

Sam Esquibel was delivered on Oct. 1, just hours after an ultrasound showed what appeared to be a tumor growing in his brain. ‚ Three days later, Dr. Paul Grabb went in to remove it, but instead ended up removing some limbs, ABC reports.

Grabb found and removed two feet, a hand, a thigh and what seemed to be part of an intestine growing inside the 3-day-old boy’s brain.

(Click here to see a photo of the foot. Warning: graphic content)

Grabb, the only pediatric brain surgeon in Southern Colorado, is now part of one of the most bizarre cases in medical history.‚ 

“You show those pictures to the most experienced pediatric neurosurgeons in the world, and they’ve never seen anything like it,”‚ Grabb‚ told the Colorado Gazette.‚ 

The reason for the growth is currently unknown, however some believe it could have been a‚ teratoma, a congenital brain tumor that causes foreign tissue, such as muscle or teeth, to grow in the brain.

Teratomas however don’t usually grow as complex as a foot or a hand. ‚ Grabb said that he sees a few teratomas a year, but none have matched Esquibel’s case.

Another possibility could be something called fetus in fetu, a developmental‚ abnormality‚ in which a fetal twin begins to grow within the other.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before,” Grabb told the Gazette.‚ ”It looked like the breach delivery of a baby coming out of the brain.”

Esquibel’s mother, Tiffnie, confirmed there were no complications during her pregnancy prior to the Oct.1 ultrasound.

She told media that her son is recovering well. ‚ She also said her family is longing to have their baby out of the international spotlight to avoid his being branded as some sort of freak.

‘This is our baby,” she exclaimed, in tears. ‚ 

Esquibel is currently undergoing rehabilitation, however his mother says he is healthy and happy.

“It’s a miracle,” she said.

British archaeologists unearthed a 2,000-year-old skull in a field near York Friday, inside of which they claim lies the remains of the “oldest human brain” in Britain and one of the earliest worldwide, according to BBC.

The skull, which was buried during the Iron Age, was sent to York‚ Hospital for a CT scan after one of the team members felt something move while cleaning it. ‚ The scan confirmed the‚ presence‚ of brain tissue, spotting a mass about a third of the size of a normal brain.

Archaeologists say the skull was most likely buried between 300 BC and one BC, and that the deceased either died by beheading or had his or her head cut off soon after death.

“From the size, it was probably an adult but we can’t say whether it was a man or woman. There is no obvious cause of death because the skull is still intact,” said‚ Dr. Richard Hall, Director of Archaeology at the York Archaeological Trust; one of his teams discovered the skull. ‚ ”We are confident that the skull was buried in this small pit and that it has lain undisturbed since the Iron Age.”

The finding however is unlikely to help reveal any new information about the brain since the organ has not changed much over the last 2,000 years, according to Chris Godsen, a professor of archeology at Oxford University.

Since the brain consists of fatty tissue which microbes in the soil usually absorb, a‚ finding‚ like this is very rare.

Archaeologists‚ believe the skull, which was found in its own muddy pit, could be a ritualistic or religious offering.

Earlier this year, at the same site,‚ archeologists‚ found a man whom they‚ believe‚ to be one of Britain’s earliest tuberculosis victims. ‚ Radiocarbon dating found that the man died during the fourth century, in the late-Roman period, according to BBC.