Lucy’s partial skeleton strengthened the argument — until then based on the tiny Taung skull — that a two-legged stride arrived before the emergence of big brains in human evolution. Lucy’s lower-body ...

Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...

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Clinical Trial for Treating Spinal Cord Injury Using Olfactory ... Oct. 30, 2024 — A new study of human skeletal remains from the wreck of the 16th century English warship Mary Rose suggests ...

Medical student Samuel Bonne had read everything he could to prepare for his group's dissection of a cadaver. But after the ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw with teeth, as well as parts of the arm, leg, pelvis, spine and ribs—47 ...

A study of Gila monster venom helped start the revolution in weight-loss drugs. But scientists think that’s just the ...

Each of these ancient fossils, even if just a small part of a skeleton, represents an identifiable character in the story of humankind.

Archaeologists first made the grim discovery in 2022 and have been studying the remains to understand why she and others were ...

Twenty years ago, scientists found a three-foot skeleton on a tropical island. Where this human species fits in our evolutionary story and why they disappeared remains a mystery.

Researchers recreated the face of a 17th century woman buried with a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her toe, ...