The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her ...

The first scientific evidence of the Black Death in Edinburgh has been discovered on the skeleton of a teenage boy who died in the 14th century, shedding new light on one of history's deadliest ...

In this 4.4-million-year-old skeleton, scientists may have found the missing step between climbing and walking.

When archaeologists find ancient human remains, they often try to determine if the person was male or female based on their bones. So how do archaeologists figure out the sex of the individual from ...

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An argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a ...

Using synchrotron X-ray nanotomography with detailed 3D imaging and in-situ mechanical testing, researchers are peering inside shark skeletons at the nanoscale, revealing a microscopic 'sharkitecture' ...

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If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Touch the branches of Leptogorgia chilensis, a soft coral found along the Pacific coast from California to Chile, and its ...