New analysis of Sahelanthropus fossils suggests upright walking emerged much earlier than once thought. Leg bones, skull anatomy, and environmental context are used to assess whether bipedalism began ...

Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

Tenontosaurus fossils found in West Texas, the southernmost record of the dinosaur and a key to the Early Cretaceous.

Advanced biomechanical modeling shows that early mammal ancestors likely used an eardrum to hear airborne sounds 250 million ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Scientists studied a mammal that lived 250 million years ago and found they had an eardrum that could detect and react to ...

It's considered one of the most decisive steps in human evolution. Now, scientists believe they have pinpointed when our ...

Bite force, a measure of the strength of an animal's bite, helps researchers understand a species' role in the ecosystem.

A stunning fossil find in Türkiye could upend everything we thought we knew about where humans come from. Buried for nearly ...

Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body and has an important role in healthy tissue as well as in a range of prevalent diseases. Medical research and diagnostics hence call for means ...

A research paper by scientists at Beijing Friendship Hospital develop a systematic approach for automated ossicular-chain ...