"The bottom line is this is a weird result from an already weird hominin." ...

More than 160 years after its discovery on England’s Jurassic Coast, thefirst complete dinosaur skeleton ever found has finally been examined in detail. The research reveals previously unknown ...

Scientists have discovered a new tissue engineering concept. The science of growing human cells to use in medical treatments is still very young. But scientists have been working hard to come up with ...

Each year, doctors treat more than 6 million bone fractures in the United States. And while it takes only a few seconds for a ...

Researchers proved that a misidentified skeleton from the 19 th century actually belongs to infamous outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes. Genealogical research found a living ...

In 2008, bat ecologist Nancy Simmons published a paper describing a 50-million-year-old bat fossil found in southwestern Wyoming, Onychonycteris finneyi. This discovery showed “features that are more ...

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A surprising amount of plastic pollution in the ocean may wind up in a previously overlooked spot: the skeletons of living corals. Up to about 20,000 metric tons of tiny fragments called microplastics ...

To be clear, at a certain point the worms did damage more fragile bones, but by testing different worm populations with ...