The Bone Museum is tucked away in Brooklyn, quietly educating visitors about skeletal anatomy while the rest of the city goes about its business completely unaware. Glass cases filled with skulls ...

In this short classroom lesson, I use a model skeleton to show students some of the major bones in the human body. We look closely at the skull and teeth, ribs and sternum, the vertebrae that form the ...

Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most recognizable names of the dinosaur world, a hulking and terrifying meat-eating behemoth.

After Jonathan Gerlach's Delco arrest for allegedly breaking into Mount Moriah mausoleums and stealing skeletons and bones, collectors and sellers of human, animal remains say sales are unregulated.

In Oklahoma’s temple of bone, science meets functional art, and flesh-eating beetles meet body parts from every continent ...

When my boys were young and hard to coax to museums, I had one line that invariably persuaded them over the threshold: “Let’s go and see some dead people!” ...

Signs of de-fleshing on bones found in a Belgian cave suggest that one group of Neanderthals cannibalized another.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

The arterial vasculature is the second most frequently calcified structure in the human body after the skeleton. Calcification of the aorta and aortic valves occurs in most individuals in westernized ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed in a cave.

Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out the rapid destruction of our planet is also affecting our bodies in profound ways.

The Bone Museum is a collection that proves New Yorkers will make a museum out of absolutely anything, and we’re all better off for it. Glass cases filled with skulls stretching into the distance, ...