The skeletons were from people who died as long ago as 4,000 B.C.. "The oldest specimens that we looked at were some skeletons from prehistoric Inuit hunter-gatherers from Alaska," Wallace says.

There are five different options: shoulder, elbow, wrist & hand, knee and foot & ankle. Each page contains an enormous X-ray GIF of the body part in motion.

A bone believed to be lost in human evolution is making a comeback, and no one is sure why, according to a new study. The fabella, a bone just behind the knee found in primates, is showing up in ...

A recent study showed that the fabella, a little bean-shaped bone at the back of the knee, is becoming more prevalent in the human body likely due to improved nutrition and people being heavier. 2.

Many of us look down at our aching knees and curse them – wondering why they seemingly evolved to hurt so much. But the human knee has a complex evolutionary history. And new research is showing ...

Walking and running upright on two feet as humans do requires some specialized adaptations of the skeleton and muscles. Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths and the weaknesses of a body ...

Knees change and adapt in response to their use, or lack thereof. A global increase in nutrition causing humans to be taller ...

These bones can be present throughout the mammalian skeleton. ... One such example is the lateral fabella, which is behind the knee and can be found in an average of 36.8% of human knees today.