Thousands of years before stone houses or mud bricks, Ice Age humans in Ukraine were building shelters out of mammoth bones.

In 1850, Samuel Stutchbury dropped a bomb on the paleontology world. While searching a fossil deposit along a cliff in Bristol, England, he had found a large, cylindrical bone fragment, then published ...

Life on the windswept plains of what is now central Ukraine offered little mercy around 18,000 years ago. Trees were scarce.

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from swimming ancestors. That's basically unheard of: While there are many ...

The mammoths were not all related to each other, according to the new analysis. Rey-Iglesia et al., Quaternary Environments and Humans, 2025 Roughly 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers completed an ...

This is a rare peek at how cartilage transforms into bone. In this image, you can see cartilage (in purple and white), blood vessels and cells (in yellow), and other specialized cells that create ...

Premature aging weakens bone integrity by impairing osteocyte networks, with male mice showing greater structural and cellular decline Age-related bone loss is a pressing health challenge for aging ...

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Dairy isn't the only food that's good for bone health. Prunes may also protect bone structure and strength in postmenopausal women, according to a new study led by Penn State researchers. The findings ...

Fragments of gigantic bones collected over more than a century have stumped paleontologists as to their origins. Marcello Perillo University of Bonn In 1850, Samuel Stutchbury dropped a bomb on the ...