While the common ancestor of vertebrates with synovial joints is still a mystery, the oldest specimen with evidence of these ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated the mechanism by which posterior spinal fixation, a technique that ...

While Duonychus tsogtbaatari had formidable claws, they were likely used to grasp vegetation, according to a study of a fully ...

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) discovered a 25,000-year-old mammoth slaughter site in ...

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These experiments are essential not only for astronauts' health, but also for potentially developing new treatments for osteoporosis on Earth, Wang said. In the plant cultivation cabinet of the ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated the mechanism by which posterior spinal fixation, a technique that fixes the infected vertebrae ... stability of the bones suppresses the ...

The face is one of the most distinctive features of vertebrates ... of humans, the incisivum fuses with the maxilla. Credit: Hiroki Higashiyama The formation of cartilage (blue) and bone (beige ...

Researchers used powerful technology to analyse thousands of individual cells at once, considering which genes are active.

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...