In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

An angler spotted something strange near the edge of a pond where he was fishing in Utah — and after investigating with his ...

It may be disturbing to characterize human bodies in such commodifying terms, but the unavoidable reality is that human ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that modern humans emerged from two long-separated ancestral groups, not just one. This ...

While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

The newly discovered bone tools, which consist of 27 deliberately split and chipped large mammal long bones, were recovered ...

While full-grown adults have 206 bones, babies are born with far more. Here's how many, and what happens to them.

Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the ...

What they found embarrassed state authorities and shook Mexico: dozens of shoes, heaps of clothing and what appeared to be ...

When a group of citizens searching for missing relatives in the western state of Jalisco arrived at a remote ranch outside Mexico’s second-largest city last week on ...