We know that some animals are bilaterian—meaning they display bilateral symmetry—while others are not, but nature is rarely ...

A group of Dallas doctors and scientists have printed a human femur — the longest and strongest bone in the body — that ...

Are you looking for a hands-on way to teach your little ones about the human body? This fun Human Body Sensory Bin is a ...

Smallest Bones: Bones come in many shapes and sizes, but not all are easy to see or feel. Some of the most important bones in the human body are also the tiniest.

Nature knows the art of healing the body, and it always gives us the right hint with its products. Fruits and vegetables come ...

When a massive tree toppled in the floodplains of Fonte Boa, a region in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen noticed ...

Naming discussions aside, a very exciting discovery remains: a kind of human we once only knew from a pinky bone dug up from ...

Bones, especially those that support body weight, lose 1 per cent to 1.5 per cent of mineral density each month, making them weaker. Muscle mass also reduces faster in space if astronauts don’t ...

A 12-year-old boy reportedly found human remains "out in the open" near a national park's visitor center while on vacation ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

After two weeks in space, astronauts experience muscle and bone loss due to the lack of gravity. Bone density also decreases, making them more susceptible to fractures. Apart from that, they may also ...