The discovery of new fossils in Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, has reshaped our understanding of Paranthropus robustus, an ...

Department of Anatomy researcher Professor Siân Halcrow is collaborating with two biological anthropology colleagues from the ...

Imagine the scene, around 3 million years ago in what is now east Africa. By the side of a river, an injured antelope keels ...

Skeleton shows Mixodectes pungens lived in trees and primarily ate leaves during the Paleocene epoch, highlighting its unique ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

The skeleton is a rigid framework of bones that forms the supporting structure of the musculoskeletal system, and also functions in movement, haematopoiesis and endocrine regulation. Skeletal ...

Bone marrow also constantly produces new skeletal stem cells that develop into bone, cartilage, and fat cells, promoting the renewal of your bone cells to maintain a healthy and strong skeleton. Bone ...

Purpose: Statistical shape modeling provides a powerful tool for describing and analyzing human anatomy. By linearly combining the variance of the shape of a population of a given anatomical entity, ...

The vertebrate skull varies widely in shape, accommodating diverse strategies of feeding and predation. The braincase is composed of several flat bones that meet at flexible joints called sutures.