“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract females rather than purely as a badge of status to ...

The Dispilio tablet is a wooden artefact bearing linear marks, unearthed in 1993 during George Hourmouziadis’s excavations of ...

Tourist spots don’t usually start at the knee and end in the brain, but this one does. The Corpus Museum in the Netherlands ...

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When Paul Tafforeau saw his first experimental scans of a COVID-19 victim’s lung, he thought he had failed. A paleontologist by training, Tafforeau had been laboring with a team strewn across Europe ...

From interactive diagrams to A.I. assistants, virtual tools are beginning to supplant physical dissections in some classrooms Students learn anatomy from an Asclepius AI Table, which merges ...

It seems like every week, there’s a new headline about some kind of sci-fi-esque organ transplant. Think eyeballs, 3D-printed kidneys, pig hearts. In her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over ...