The remains of a mother mammoth and her calf discovered in New Mexico is among the best evidence for humans settling in North America earlier than thought.

A medication used to prevent bone loss may help prevent ovarian cancer, a study of 50,000 women over the age of 50 shows.

Bone density loss is a problem for astronauts on long space flights. A new kind of lettuce astronauts could grow in space might solve the problem.

Neanderthal spines and the Industrial Revolution offer clues to the back pain people experience today.

To get airborne, the giant pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus probably jumped at least 8 feet into the air before lifting off by sweeping its wings.

Analysis of a 1,300-year-old skeleton found in a tomb in China determined that the man was not a grave robber, but a victim of murder.

A two-million-year-old fossil vertebrae shows Australopithecus sediba used their upper limbs to climb like apes and their lower limbs to walk like humans.

New ultra-thin wireless devices called osseosurface electronics that grow to the surface of the bone could one day monitor and protect bone health.

Research in mice shows inflammation obesity causes may lead to the development of bone-destroying cells that can break down the bone holding teeth in place.

A child’s skull believed to be up to 250,000 years old and discovered in a South African cave sheds light on a human ancestor called Homo naledi.