Facial growth stops at puberty in Homo sapiens. Humans differ from chimpanzees and Neanderthals in how their faces grow. In ...

Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time.

Ancient humans living in what is now Ukraine 400,000 years ago may have practised or taught tool-making techniques using ...

WashU students have advocated for the repatriation of the Robert J. Terry Anatomical Skeletal Collection and the renouncement of its primary collector, former head of WashU’s Anatomy Department and ...

Researchers found evidence that the joints evolved as the species became active predators with jaws and mobile skeletons.

A team of MIT researchers recently created the first synthetic muscle actuator that can flex in multiple directions. This study opens the door for more capable soft robots and other advanced medical ...

Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, with a strange evolution in Mongolia's Gobi Desert ...

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos—delicious Latin American ...

Our research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field – assuming we’re successful ...

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...

And they knew which animals had skeletons large enough to craft reliable tools ... This way we will learn more about the evolution of human technology and behaviour. 32,789 people played the daily ...