When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, the mission is to remove the tumor entirely ...

Everything we knew about human origins just changed. A bizarre 3.4-million-year-old discovery in the African dirt proves Lucy wasn’t alone, exposing a mysterious second species with a feature experts ...

After Jonathan Gerlach's Delco arrest for allegedly breaking into Mount Moriah mausoleums and stealing skeletons and bones, collectors and sellers of human, animal remains say sales are unregulated.

If someone told you there’s a museum in Brooklyn dedicated entirely to bones, you’d probably assume they were joking or possibly describing a very niche restaurant. The Bone Museum is very real, very ...

Scientists are reconstructing the sounds of early human communication by examining fossil anatomy, primate behavior, and brain research. Evidence suggests vocal communication evolved gradually, with ...

If watching The Pitt is giving you a renewed interest in the human body in all of its gory glory, there’s a new tool that will help satisfy your curiosity. An international team of scientists ...

In Oklahoma’s temple of bone, science meets functional art, and flesh-eating beetles meet body parts from every continent ...

The growing paleopathological literature shows that scurvy was not a rare problem among people living in the ancient Asia-Pacific tropics. Scurvy is increasingly identified throughout the region, ...

When my boys were young and hard to coax to museums, I had one line that invariably persuaded them over the threshold: “Let’s go and see some dead people!” ...

Millions of hedgehogs die as they cross the roads, but a discovery is paving the way for a warning that might stop them crossing at dangerous times.

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins ...

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...