Humans have a distinctive skeleton, and are the only bipedal great apes (the great ape species are bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans). While the evolution of the human skeleton ...

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

The first 'blueprint' of human skeletal development reveals how the skeleton forms, shedding light on the process of arthritis, and highlighting cells involved in conditions that affect skull and bone ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over ...

New clinical insights reveal that protein isn't just for muscles—it makes up 50% of your bone volume and is the secret to ...

A prehistoric human skeleton was discovered in an underwater cave in Mexico that was flooded at the end of the last Ice Age, an archaeologist said Tuesday. Octavio Del Rio, a cave-diving archaeologist ...

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...