While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now ...

Often compared to a computer, the body's most complex organ operates using a code of electrical and chemical signals. These signals transmit through wires, nodes and networks to process and store ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

An angler noticed something strange in the mud at the edge of a Utah pond — and realized it was human bones, police said. Google Maps screenshot An angler spotted something strange near the edge ...

A total of 27 bone tools found at Tanzania's Olduvai ... were probably created by Homo erectus, an early human species with body proportions similar to our species Homo sapiens, according to ...

Full-body scans are making headlines for potentially catching diseases early, but some doctors urge caution. Here's what you ...

Sima de los Huesos, or the "Pit of Bones," is a significant archaeological site located in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain, near the town of Ibeas de Juarros, in the Burgos Province.

Deep in a trench in Tanzania, researchers found dozens of tools crafted from animal bones some 1.5 million years ... to investigate the early stages of human tool-making. Before 1.8 million ...

The oldest collection of mass-produced prehistoric bone tools reveal that human ancestors were likely capable of more advanced abstract reasoning one million years earlier than thought ...

New evidence uncovered in east Africa indicates ancient hominins began crafting tools from animal bones far earlier than previously thought. If confirmed, our human ancestors started shaping bones ...

Human ancestors’ ability to use stone-shaping techniques on bone represents “a level of complex cognition that we haven’t seen elsewhere for another million years.” Moving forward ...

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