The human body is an extraordinary machine, constantly surprising scientists with its remarkable capabilities and adaptations. From enduring extreme conditions to performing incredible physical and ...

The left hip and leg bones from a young female Paranthropus robustus discovered in South Africa show she was extremely short ...

Shocking before-and-after images of NASA's stranded astronauts show the terrifying damage that months spent in the harsh ...

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

In just over a year, a volunteer organization found more than two dozen sites containing human bones in the Southern New ...

MIT engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated ...

Almost 40 years after they were discovered, the skeletal remains of a man found in Ida were identified by the Monroe County ...

The Pueblo coroner is working with a Texas DNA lab to try and identify the skeletal remains of a John Doe whose body was ...

in Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park provides new insights into early human life in Southeast Asia. The 29,000-year-old skeleton of the child, estimated to be between around 6 to 8 years old, was found ...

(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Kelly Curtis, of The United States, reacts in the finish area after the second run of the women’s skeleton World Cup race on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, in Lake Placid, N.Y.