The Skeletal System

The face of a 1,400-year-old murder victim is seeing the light of day, now that scientists have digitally reconstructed his features.

CT scans of "Lucy," a human ancestor that lived 3 million years ago, reveal evidence in the structure of her bones that suggests she climbed trees as well as a walked on the ground.

X-ray analysis reveals the 17-century man carried a satchel full of coins.

The Storr Lochs Monster was a 13-foot-long reptile that ruled the seas 170 million years ago.

Arthritis is far from just a modern malady, said scientists who discovered the condition in the elbow of a 70-million-year-old duck-billed dinosaur.

Researchers have figured out how to get stem cells to grow on a scaffold shaped like the ball of a hip joint and regenerate a cushion of cartilage.

The origins of a man who lived some 8,500 years ago, and whose skeleton was discovered in 1996 in Kennewick, Washington, have finally been pinned down.

New analysis reveals that a copper belt might have contributed to the mummification of a lung belonging to Merovingian royalty.

Since their discovery in 1958, fossils of the so-called Tully monster have mystified scientists.

Since Francis Tully's fossil discovery in the coalfields of Illinois, the so-called "Tully monster" has perplexed scientists, with some calling it a worm and others a shell-less snail.