The Bone Museum is tucked away in Brooklyn, quietly educating visitors about skeletal anatomy while the rest of the city goes about its business completely unaware. Glass cases filled with skulls ...

The tongues of big cats have hook-like protrusions hardened with keratin, which make the top surface of a cat's tongue into a ...

Technicians digitized a crushed fossil skull with enough precision to track each displaced fragment. The specimen was Little ...

When a patient is diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, the mission is to remove the tumor entirely. Leaving behind even a microscopic cluster of malignant cells can be the ...

Everything we knew about human origins just changed. A bizarre 3.4-million-year-old discovery in the African dirt proves Lucy wasn’t alone, exposing a mysterious second species with a feature experts ...

After Jonathan Gerlach's Delco arrest for allegedly breaking into Mount Moriah mausoleums and stealing skeletons and bones, collectors and sellers of human, animal remains say sales are unregulated.

If someone told you there’s a museum in Brooklyn dedicated entirely to bones, you’d probably assume they were joking or possibly describing a very niche restaurant. The Bone Museum is very real, very ...

In Oklahoma’s temple of bone, science meets functional art, and flesh-eating beetles meet body parts from every continent ...

When my boys were young and hard to coax to museums, I had one line that invariably persuaded them over the threshold: “Let’s go and see some dead people!” ...

Millions of hedgehogs die as they cross the roads, but a discovery is paving the way for a warning that might stop them crossing at dangerous times.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.