Lead image: Still from 1929's The Skeleton Dance, the first Silly Symphony from Walt Disney The former Republican Senate ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises ...

Skeleton season may be just around the corner, but the skeleton age dawned with the early Cambrian Period, about 538 million ...

Archaeologists excavating an ancient well in eastern Croatia have discovered the skeletons of seven men whose bodies had been tossed in haphazardly. Experts think the remains belong to Roman soldiers ...

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Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic 'sharkitecture' ...

When archaeologists find ancient human remains, they often try to determine if the person was male or female based on their bones. So how do archaeologists figure out the sex of the individual from ...

Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material ...

Archaeologists found 317 medieval and post-medieval skeletons at the site of a department store that is being remodeled into a university campus. This was hardly surprising, since even more ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...