We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

Well-preserved genomes show a “rare” leprosy strain thriving in ancient Chile, rewriting when and where Hansen’s Disease ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that ...

Trekking through mud and rocks in Japan's humid Okinawan jungle, Takamatsu Gushiken reached a slope of ground where human ...

Battle of Okinawa, volunteers like Takamatsu Gushiken are still recovering WWII remains from jungle, These remains have the ...

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in ...

Instead she found what looked like cut marks on a hominin shin bone, which was discovered in 1970 in the Turkana region of northwestern Kenya by the famed British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey.

Although scientists have been researching the fossil remains of Paranthropus robustus since the 1940s, they still had a narrow understanding of the species’ stature, posture, and mobility. The new ...

Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in South Africa about 2 million years ago, alongside Homo ergaster, a direct ancestor of modern people. Fossils of Paranthropus ...

image: The new Paranthropus robustus thigh and shin bones, articulated at the knee joint. view more Credit: Jason L. Heaton Paranthropus robustus was a species of prehistoric human that lived in ...

Additionally, the jumping mice had 110% thicker cartilage than the reduced activity group. Jumping also enhanced bone strength. The team found shin bones in the jumping mice had 15% higher mineral ...

A bone dragged to a Birmingham, Alabama, home by the same dog that previously found a human skull has been determined to be a leg bone. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates on Friday ...