By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

New evidence adds to a 2020 finding that dinosaurs had bone tumors and other conditions seen in modern-day vertebrates. In 2014, researchers discovered a 150-million-year-old ulna of a mamenchisaurid ...

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the UK more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named Pararhincodon torquis, is a distant relative of the collared carpet sharks which ...

Imagine standing face to face with a giraffe, your neck craned back as you gaze up at this gentle giant towering over you. At ...

Ahn’s attorney argued that the way he left the body wasn’t “abuse,” but an odd display of mourning, likening it to “dressing up a skeleton.” He said Ahn had “covered the body out of respect” and was ...

The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your ... which are known as the rotator cuff muscles. The anatomical neck is between the humeral head and the greater ...

The nasal bones form the roof, while the frontal process of the maxilla and lacrimal bone form the sides of the nose ... The person has a possible head or neck injury. The person is having difficulty ...

Other important functions of the kidneys include blood pressure regulation and the production of erythropoietin, which controls red blood cell production in the bone marrow. Kidneys also regulate the ...

We have developed a fully synthetic lung surfactant preparation, based on designed analogues of surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C, for treatment of respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants.

The net effect is a shift in favor of bone formation over bone resorption ... did not exhibit low BMD at the lumbar spine, total hip, or femoral neck (T-scores of 0.0, 0.9, and 0.1, respectively); ...