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

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

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

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

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 ...

Deep inside a remote cave, a scatter of ancient wolf bones can feel like a crime scene frozen in time. The way those remains ...

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

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

When in-person teaching resumed for the Spring 2022 semester, Anthropology Professor Marni LaFleur, PhD, introduced a new tool to enhance her students’ learning experience – bone boxes containing half ...

Human skeletal remains have been found in a tent near a residential street in Hull, police have said. Officers were called to an alleyway close to Melwood Grove after a call from a member of the ...

Ardi is the oldest known partial skeleton of a hominin and shows foot features that are transitioning from vertical climbing to bipedal walking. While Ardi has the primitive grasping big toe of the ...