A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones belonging to Paranthropus boisei — an extinct human relative who lived over 1.5 ...

The human body is eerily similar to a complex machine, with countless delicate parts. These parts range from the tiniest of cells to our limbs, eyes, kidneys, and brains. These parts have slowly ...

The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over millions of years. It comprises an axial skeleton, which consists of the skull and the spine, as well as an ...

“Like riding a bike” is shorthand for the remarkable way that our bodies remember how to move. Most of the time when we talk about muscle memory, we’re not talking about the muscles themselves but ...

A set of incomplete skeletal remains, including a human skull, was recovered near a busy Queens strip mall Monday afternoon, just a week after city sanitation workers found a woman’s torso in a trash ...

Police launched an investigation after a trash bag containing the skeletal remains of a person was found in a Queens park. The remains, possibly of a woman, were found by Department of Sanitation ...

(NEXSTAR) – Mystique Ro, a rising star in the sport of skeleton, made history by becoming the first American to win a medal in a world event championship in over a decade, securing a silver medal in ...

At a home on Terrell Avenue near 8 Mile Road and Van Dyke Avenue, investigators said they found human skeletal remains Wednesday night though the cause of death or identifying details of the person ...