Scientists and researchers around the globe are investigating a series of mysteries about what happens to our bones over time.

For instance, white blood cells in humans can survive for up to 86 hours postmortem. Meanwhile skeletal muscle cells in mice have been regrown as late as 14 days after death. Cryopreservation ...

The study - titled Daily life in a New Kingdom fortress town in Nubia: A reexamination of physical activity at Tombos and published ... with limited indicators of physiological stress present on ...

Virginia Tech’s Pamela VandeVord and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Gunnar Brolinson recently received a $2.17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to ...

Anthropology is the study of being human both culturally and biologically — both in the past and present. Anthropology at USD teaches students about complex cultural and biological diversity of humans ...

Stephen Chester, associate professor of anthropology ... determined that the skeleton belonged to a mature adult that weighed about 1.3 kilograms, or 2.9 pounds. The anatomy of the animal's ...

“A 62-million-year-old skeleton of this quality and completeness offers novel insights into mixodectids, including a much clearer picture of their evolutionary relationships,” said Sargis, professor ...

Burial under the altar is reserved for only the most honored individuals. This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found, still wrapped in its eternal tools of torture, by a team of archaeologists ...

Though it is known mostly from enormous fossil teeth, one find revealed parts of its skeleton, particularly a fossilized vertebral column, or the “trunk” portion, of O. megalodon measuring ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Kimberley Bos, of The Netherlands, is embraced after her run during fourth run at the skeleton world ...