A new atlas maps human skeletal development, revealing key insights into bone formation, genetic links to arthritis, and ...

Full view of how bones and joints form in the first trimester uncovers cells and pathways that could help diagnose and treat skeletal conditions in the future.

It was already pretty hot by the time Donald Johanson and his graduate student, Tom Gray, arrived at the site at Hadar, ...

The excavation, led by Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, executive director of the American Research Center, took place beneath the ...

It is hoped that charting the types and properties of all human cells will help experts to better treat diseases such as ...

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) is an extremely rare congenital condition that causes the body to grow a second ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Dave Einsel/Getty Images "As I turned it over, I saw the anatomy so distinctive of a human skeleton, of a human ancestor skeleton. And as I looked up the slope, I could see other parts of a ...

Our understanding of human ancestry has changed dramatically since the discovery of Lucy the ancient hominin 50 years ago.

Set 10,000 years before the era of Paul Atreides, Dune: Prophecy begins in the shadow of the Butlerian Jihad: a massive war ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.