The skeletal system is made from bones and joints. The femur bone in the thigh is the longest and strongest bone in the body. The smallest bones in the body are called the ossicles in the ear.

There are 206 bones in the body. The skeleton makes up about 25 per cent of the body weight. The bones of the skeleton continually replace themselves, fast enough to form an entirely new skeleton ...

Imagine you are an archaeologist excavating at a new building site in East London, the location of an ancient cemetery. Deep down you uncover bones that look old. You recover a full skull with teeth, ...

Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about ...

Researchers compared the markings found on an ancient skeleton in England to bones that had been chewed on by cheetahs, lions ...

The trillions of cells that make up our skeleton age too ... contributing to bone loss." Senescent cells release a toxic brew of molecules, called senescence-associated secretory phenotype ...

The Halon crew captured 53 light detection and ranging scans, or LiDAR scans, of Ms. Blue with a portable 3D laser scanner called ... the most damaged bones in Ms. Blue’s skeleton before ...