Grey's Anatomy has shifted its focus to one-off patient storylines in recent seasons, but they lack the emotional impact of ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

MIT engineers developed a method to grow artificial muscle tissue that twitches and flexes in multiple, coordinated ...

After four failed attempts, scientists have at last dated the skeleton of a possible human-Neanderthal hybrid found in ...

The rosary hung from a branch of mesquite, its light blue beads swaying in the breeze. The site was a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. It wasn’t far from paved roads, a truck stop, the city of ...

Department of Anatomy researcher Professor Siân Halcrow is collaborating with two biological anthropology colleagues from the ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is a unique underground burial complex on the island of Malta that covers 500 square meters (5,381 ...

Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a ...