The human body abounds with vestigial features, but this one seems to be slowly disappearing, and there's an easy way to ...

(Reuters) -A new analysis of a pigeon-sized Archaeopteryx fossil in the collection of the Field Museum in Chicago is ...

Transhumeral surgery is a life-changing medical procedure that offers hope to individuals who have lost part of their upper arm, often due to trauma, infection, or medical conditions such as cancer.

New fossil evidence suggests echidnas evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor, not a land-based one. The bone structure ...

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from ...

A Queensland paramedic who retrieved a man’s severed arm bone from a tree after a horrific car crash has lost her appeal to ...

The humerus bone unearthed in the 1990s dates back to between 103 million and 108 million years ago, and is the only fossil example of the extinct monotreme Kryoryctes cadburyi. The creature was ...

Medicare covers a bone density test every two years under specific criteria. This may be because a person has osteoporosis, estrogen deficiency, or primary hyperparathyroidism, for example.

A new study suggests the platypus and echidna — the only egg-laying mammals — had a water-dwelling ancestor. The finding ...

The fossil, a humerus, or upper arm bone, was discovered in 1993 at Dinosaur Cove in southeastern Australia. From the outside, the specimen looked more like a bone from a land-dwelling echidna ...

In the 1990s, a team from Museums Victoria identified the humerus bone, in the upper arm between the shoulder and the elbow, as once belonging to the Kryoryctes cadburyi, an egg-laying monotreme.