“Preliminary investigation suggests that the remains of Mr. Degan were possibly severed by a sharp instrument," said ...

Human evolution is often told as a tidy story of adaptation, yet some of our most familiar body parts still defy straightforward explanation. From the jut of the human chin to the curve of the outer ...

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our ...

At The Bone Museum in Brooklyn, New York, visitors can view full human skeletons, shown left, and assorted bones like the partial spine of a person who had Pott's Disease, shown right. (Nina ...