Two leg bones dredged from the Taiwan Strait suggest that at least some Denisovans were exceptionally tall, powerfully built, ...

Madrid's Gregorio Marañón Hospital has created the world's first personalised metamaterial bone prosthesis, successfully implanted in a 38-year-old with tibial sarcoma, avoiding leg amputation. View o ...

The discovery of new species of dinosaurs along the shores of Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has scientists excited about future ...

Denisovans have been difficult to trace in the fossil record. Scientists first identified the group in 2010 using DNA from a ...

Take a walk in London's Trafalgar Square this summer, and people of all body sizes—some tall, some short—will be wilting in the heat: a real mix of sizes.

Wild monkeys in West Africa can climb vertical tree trunks using foot flexibility scientists did not realize they possessed.

A skeleton discovered deep inside a cave in Borneo preserves the oldest known evidence of a successful surgical amputation.

The large Harbin skull from China has been linked to Denisovans through DNA and ancient proteins. Fu et al. (2025) Take a walk in London’s Trafalgar Square this summer and wilting under the heat will ...

The study focused on two unusually complete Neanderthal pelvises. The Dederiyeh infant, though only a toddler, already ...

The main difference concerns male human hip joints, which are positioned farther forward on the pelvic ring than both human ...

Excessive or uneven pressure where a prosthesis meets the body can cause harm. (Wu Research Group, Zhejiang University of ...

Uncover 25 ancient human discoveries that challenge our understanding of early man. See how new fossils and DNA finds are ...