The researchers also studied fossils of extinct fishes dating back almost 400 million years and saw evidence that some of the oldest jawed fishes had bones with joint cavities for articulated ...

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

Johannes Bückler, known by the name “Schinderhannes,” was a legendary outlaw from the late 18th century, and his body was thought to be displayed in an exhibit at the Anatomical Collection of ...

Olduvai Gorge is a Unesco World Heritage site. It became well known in 1959 through the pioneering work of palaeontologists Louis and Mary Leakey, whose discoveries of early human remains reshaped our ...

The legendary robbers ‘Schinderhannes’ and ‘Schwarzer Jonas’ were executed by guillo-tine in Mainz in 1803. In 1805, the first chair holder of anatomy at the University of Hei-delberg, Jacob Fidelis ...

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

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

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Now, we may have some answers, thanks to a well-preserved 62 million-year-old skeleton. This particular ... and hind limbs. By the anatomy of its limbs and claws, the team believes that it lived ...