A gray whale that washed ashore on Vashon Island offers a rare opportunity for students and community members to study and ...

Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...

The long saga of the 48-foot whale that washed up on the shores of Cook Inlet in November continued this week.

Diagnostic imaging determined that in life, the young mamenchisaurid suffered from an osteogenic tumor, or a tumor that ...

It seemed his dream of recovering a complete skeleton from the 48-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November might be slipping away with the tide. With permission from federal ...

One of the most important aspects of the pangolin’s ability to walk on two legs is its thick, muscular tail. The tail acts as ...

In an announcement Saturday, the Lone Peak Police Department said it responded to a report of suspected human remains on the ...

After hitting 40, our bones might start to feel a bit more delicate due to bone mass loss. This is where exercise becomes ...

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

and the appendicular skeleton includes bones that make up your appendages (arms and legs) and bones that attach your limbs to your axial skeleton. Your skull (cranium) is made up of cranial and facial ...

Among the 29 human bone objects, 27 were made from either the arm or the leg, while the remaining were ... manual effort behind crafting the skeletal artifacts. While objects fashioned from ...

The tibia, one of the bones in the lower leg (or calf area), is the bottom weight-bearing part of the joint. The kneecap (or patella) rides along the front of the femur. The remaining bone in the ...