Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

Archaeologists excavating sites on Russia's Taman Peninsula have uncovered remarkable evidence of ancient innovation—carefully crafted bone skates made from horse bones that enabled ancient peoples to ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

Archaeologists spend careers mapping the expected, yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive where no one thought to ...

Bigger doesn't necessarily mean stronger says Ben Garrod. In fact its the smaller animals that have the strongest skeletons ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17, Issue 11 of Aging-US on November 26, 2025, titled "Epigenetic aging ...

Using 3D technology and other methods, the team identified Sahelanthropus’s femoral tubercle, which is the point of ...

They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Potentially priceless archaeological evidence is heading back to Hawaii for “reburial and proper care” — at the hands of an ...