The largest muscle in the human body is the Gluteus Maximus. It is responsible for keeping your posture upright, and is the principal antigravity force working when you walk up stairs.

The recurrent laryngeal nerve is one of the most baffling features of human anatomy. Instead of going straight from the brain to the larynx, it loops all the way down into the chest before ...

The team at Wish.co.uk has created an infographic that dives into “The Anatomy of a Scary Film,” analyzing everything from soundtrack creation to camera angles, from scare tactics to the ...

With the wave of a hand, a life-size human skeleton appears in front of him. In the next few seconds, the bones are overlaid with the body’s organs, then its musculature, then the skin and outer ...

The study of human anatomy reaches back thousands of years, to the Romans and Greeks. Herophilus, the Greek anatomist, is considered the first to take a scalpel to skin to see how our bodies work ...

ABOVE: LAURIE O’KEEFE In the 16th century, when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch of a glimpse of public dissections ...