NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are set to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space. Their prolonged stay poses health challenges like muscle loss, weakened bones, dizziness ...

The Lapedo child, discovered in Portugal in 1998, has fascinated scientists for over two decades. This enigmatic skeleton, ...

The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...

Paranthropus robustus fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal new insights into their diet, social structure, and survival 2 ...

A study published in Scientific Reports has revealed that European tribes, called the Magdalenians, practiced cranial ...

For a long time, tool technology was seen as a uniquely human trait, associated with the genus ‘Homo’. Now we know tools go ...

Near the end of the age of dinosaurs, a bird resembling today’s loons and grebes dove for fish and other prey in the perilous ...

For biological studies employing rodents, craniotomy is often times performed to enhance image qualities. However, craniotomy is unsuitable for longitudinal studies, where a long-term cranial window ...

Calcium is a mineral that our bodies need for strong bones and teeth and supports the heart, muscles, and nerves. It is the most abundant mineral in the body and is primarily stored in the bones and ...

The skeleton is a rigid framework of bones that forms the supporting structure of the musculoskeletal system, and also functions in movement, haematopoiesis and endocrine regulation. Skeletal ...

These include the shape of the cranial cavity and inner ear canals ... filling the inside of most bones in modern land vertebrates, including humans. The unique holotype of our new species ...