By analyzing the arrangement of vertebrae in the spines of nearly 400 species of tetrapods—a group of animals with four limbs ...

New evidence adds to a 2020 finding that dinosaurs had bone tumors and other conditions seen in modern-day vertebrates. In 2014, researchers discovered a 150-million-year-old ulna of a mamenchisaurid ...

A previously unknown shark once swam around the shores of the UK more than 70 million years ago. The new species, named ...

Imagine standing face to face with a giraffe, your neck craned back as you gaze up at this gentle giant towering over you. At ...

Ahn’s attorney argued that the way he left the body wasn’t “abuse,” but an odd display of mourning, likening it to “dressing up a skeleton.” He said Ahn had “covered the body out of respect” and was ...

It also helps you twist, bend, and otherwise alter your trunk and neck position. There are typically 24 movable ... L5-S1 consists of the last bone in the lumbar spine (low back), called L5, and the ...