Some treatments and procedures become routine despite lacking strong evidence to show that they’re beneficial. Recent studies ...

July 11, 2024 — Neuroscientists have used a nanosized sensor to record spinal ... found that it nearly doubled repair strength. Their biomimetic approach following ... June 21, 2024 — Our bone ...

At the mine, the team excavated part of a vertebral column. It was made up of 27 vertebrae in total. The bones dated back around ... The first method found that Vasuki would’ve been between ...

If you've ever seen a dolphin swim, you may have wondered why they undulate their bodies up and down when swimming, instead ...

Shark skeletons don’t include any bones at all. But their jaws, spinal column and the cartilage surrounding their brain are strengthened by calcium salts, which get deposited into their skeletal ...

Over thousands of millennia a mantle of sediment built up over its bones. The sea receded ... lay full length beside the spinal column of the creature, called Basilosaurus, at a place in the ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, an international team of  researchers reveal new insights into the ...

The head is not any more mobile on the spinal column than any other two vertebrae are on each ... Pieces of the proatlas are found in the skulls of some extinct amphibians, in crocodiles and in the ...

"It is considered more painful than fibromyalgia or giving birth — even more painful than amputating a finger without ...

An enormous bone, thought to be a vertebra from a sperm whale, has been washed up on a north Norfolk beach. The bone, measuring more than one foot across, is set to join West Runton Beach Café ...

Cancers that spread to the spine move to the bone marrow of the vertebral column by way of blood vessels. Spinal cord compression can also occur through direct tumor extension, which is frequently ...