Anthropologists have been arguing for 20 years about whether Sahelanthropus, a hominin that lived about 7 million years ago, ...

At the site of the Battle of Waterloo, archaeologists from the nonprofit Waterloo Uncovered have discovered a complete skeleton. The newly unearthed bones likely belong to a soldier who died there ...

How many bones are in the human body? Your skeleton is with you all the time, providing you structure and protection. But what do you actually know about your bones?

NEW YORK (AP) — The 31,000-year-old skeleton of a young adult found in a cave in Indonesia that is missing its left foot and part of its left leg reveals the oldest known evidence of amputation ...

It wasn’t the first time Oliver found human remains. He found a leg bone about 15 years ago. That bone also was interred at a local church cemetery. News4 sends breaking news stories by email.

"We have what looks like a complete human skeleton and, next to that, it's another amputated leg," said Tony Pollard, a professor at Glasgow University and one of the mission's directors.

You might face a similar problem when looking at the skeleton. Until the age of about 30, your bones are still growing, and the ends of the shafts are fusing to short bone caps called epiphyses.

Long bones, like in your arms and legs, are mostly made of compact bone Short bones, like the bones in your wrists and ankles, are mainly made of spongy bone ...

A human bone washed up near the iconic Jane’s Carousel along downtown Brooklyn’s waterfront early Wednesday — two days after a parks worker discovered other skeletal remains there, cops said.

Co-author Jemma Kerns, a Lancaster University researcher who worked on this project, has previously used Raman spectroscopy to investigate bone disease in the lower leg bones of some of these sailors.