Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found may belong to an entirely new species, according to an ...

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

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

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

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

So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes. In the end, the question is not just about ...

A call from a friend about a ‘blue egg with a skeleton hand inside’ took us on a journey to Freswick Castle to investigate ...

Automated assessment of human motion plays a vital role in rehabilitation, enabling objective evaluation of patient performance and progress. Unlike general human activity recognition, rehabilitation ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

Some people in Ukraine weathered the harshest moments of the last ice age by creating shelters made partly of mammoth bones and tusks.

Abstract: The skeleton-based human action recognition has broad application prospects in the field of virtual reality, as skeleton data is more resistant to data noise such as background interference ...