Jackson Njau's fascination with human origins started as a curious teen growing up a few hours from one of the most famous ...

Archaeologists working at the Cueva de Sangre site in Guatemala have discovered an unusual ancient Maya ritual.

Have you ever had an X-ray taken of your bones? Well, so has the Milky Way. NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory regularly images ...

A recent survey found that 70% of adults over 50 experience joint pain. Here's what it could mean—and the expert-backed ways ...

Astronomers have discovered a likely explanation for a fracture in a huge cosmic "bone" in the Milky Way galaxy, using NASA's ...

A newly discovered moth species spends its caterpillar days squatting in spiderwebs, fastidiously camouflaging itself in the cast-off parts of other creepy crawlies. The carnivorous “bone ...

Add to that list the newly discovered "bone collector" caterpillar, which conducts daring raids on spider webs for sustenance, camouflaging itself in the body parts of already-consumed insects to ...

The species, dubbed the “bone collector” by the University of Hawaii scientists who discovered it, hides from its natural predator by wearing a silk case strewn with the body parts of other ...

The newly described “bone collector” caterpillar species disguises itself with the body parts of dead insects so that it can live among spiders and poach their prey. This is the only ...

metal belt and jewelry that helped them date the burial to 530 to 520 B.C. The researchers determined that the wound was located on the man's left ischial bone — part of the pelvis sometimes ...

A 52-year-old Florida woman was recently arrested after she knowingly bought and sold human bones online, police say. Kymberlee Anne Schopper of Deltona was charged with trading in human tissue ...

Although no weapon was found embedded in the bone or in the grave, the researchers figured out what it was based on 3D CT scanning, which let them make a negative imprint of the wound. Sign up for ...