The human skeleton is made up of more than 200 bones ... Bones like the ribs and spine help keep the body upright, and bones like the ones you find in the arms and legs help it move.

This feat has come about over time through a series of anatomical changes to our skeleton, affecting our cranial base, spine, pelvis, femur, knees and feet. Australopithecus sediba (centre) and modern ...

This is particularly important, as a working notochord in human stem cells could help further research into how birth defects affect the spine or spinal cord. The researchers note that it could ...

There are important differences between the human skeleton and stride and that of ... In those ancient creatures, as in modern quadrupeds, the spine functioned more like a flexible suspension ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest human skeleton ever found in the country. This finding pushes back the established timeline of human presence by tens of thousands of years, opening a new ...

Researchers have discovered a 7,200-year-old skeleton of a young woman in a cave in South Sulawesi ... “This is the first time anyone’s found ancient human DNA” in the region known as Wallacea, the ...

Further details on how long the skeleton had been at the site and the ... We can now confirm that the remains are human but at this time have not been formally identified. A scene is in place ...