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A seven-million-year-old fossil may mark the moment our ancestors first stood up and walked.

A central Pa man's arrest this week comes as human remains ethicists warn death is fast becoming a fashion statement and a collector’s item.

Why intersex well-being depends less on biology and more on stigma, autonomy, and connection, and what that means for ...

Grey’s Anatomy’s midseason premiere Jan. 8 revealed whether Jo Wilson and her and Atticus “Link” Lincoln’s twins survived ...

Clive Owen's period medical drama The Knick is an unflinching look at the beginnings of modern medicine in the 20th century.

So-called resurrectionists pilfered graves for corpses and trundled them off to hospitals. An outraged public occasionally ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright movement. It helps explain how human ancestors left life on all fours ...

Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...