Fossils unearthed in South Africa turn out to be of an extinct human cousin that used to stand upright and was vulnerable to ...

Older women who stayed on a reduced-calorie Mediterranean diet, walked and did resistance training for three years improved their bone density, especially in their lower backs, a new study found.

Mar. 14, 2025 — Researchers have found that proteins and pathways involved in inflammation are associated with changes in bone mineral density (BMD) over time. The ... Robotics and Spinal ...

They are, in the opinion of no less an authority than the paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould, “the world’s most important animal fossils”—not Tyrannosaurus rex, not Lucy, but a collection of ...

Apr. 8, 2025 — The idea that dinosaurs were already in decline before an asteroid wiped most of them out 66 million years ago may be explained by a worsening fossil ... Apr. 1, 2025 — More ...

Now, thanks to forensic facial reconstruction, an international team of scientists have used 3D scans of her skull, along with soft tissue data from chimpanzees (who have similar-sized brains to the ...