A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought beast to entertain the subjects of the ...

Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which offer a “window ...

Gladiator combat is a well-documented aspect of ancient Roman society, but the physical remains of fighters have remained ...

If you’re someone who’s at risk for developing osteoporosis, you’re probably well-accustomed to receiving regular bone density tests. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA or DXA ...

There are the bare-bones examples whose claim to fame is a low purchase price and even lower running costs. At the other end of the spectrum are mammoths that have enough electronics for the Space ...

Paleontologists in Argentina recently found the first unambiguous evidence that a group of theropod dinosaurs had hollow ...

Intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) is a leading cause of low back pain and disability worldwide. Here, Liu et. al find the loss of protein MFG-E8 from damaged nucleus pulposus tissue plays a ...

“I can wear them all day with no foot aches,” says Andriakos, who deals with sesamoiditis (nagging inflammation of the sesamoid bones in the ball of the foot). “First day out of the ...

Sesamoid bones are small bones in tendons that aid movement, with two located near the big toe joint in the tendon that bends the toe. Sesamoiditis occurs when these bones become painful and swollen, ...

Dr. Peters described the injury to The Blood-Horse: “Both sesamoid bones had been crushed and the sesamoid pad completely ruptured. Ligaments in the ankle joint had been completely torn in two.