For generations, biology textbooks have drawn a clean line, only four limbed animals like mammals, birds and reptiles have a ...

Dubois craftsman Ben Barto owns Bone Daddy Knives, a hobby turned big business that’s now bankrolling a transformation of Dubois' Outlaw Bar and giving the once-seedy watering hole a new vibe. “This ...

Orthopedic reconstruction has been built around a practical compromise. Surgeons study the patient’s anatomy, assess the deformity or damage and then choose the best available implant from a ...

A new Homo floresiensis study suggests the extinct "hobbit" scavenged Komodo dragon kills instead of hunting large prey or ...

Paleontologists have found the first known evidence of bees nesting inside animal bones, using empty tooth sockets in ...

When whales die, they eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean. Over time, the organic material that once made up the whale is stripped away, leaving nothing more than a skeleton. The ocean floor is ...

The Fourth of July is the perfect time for firing up the grill, hosting a barbecue and dining al fresco. Burgers, hot dogs and brats are all popular on the Fourth, but so are slabs of pork ribs tossed ...

At a Cretaceous lake in what is now northwestern China, paleontologists have found the fossilized remains of ancient birds ...

Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...

Scientists have stumbled on a rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica, tucked away for decades in a drawer. The bone comes from the tail of a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur called ...

An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago.

The fossil also preserves microscopic structures resembling collagen fibres, the protein framework that strengthens bone. Although chemically altered over millions of years, the fibre patterns remain ...