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 have now discovered that these skeletal cells do not just differ in their developmental ...

“Right. Tendons are mechanically resilient tissues that connect our muscle to our bone. Anytime we overload our tendons, we ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have unearthed a 168-million-year-old thigh bone. The bone belonged to a cerapodan, a ...