A study published in PeerJby paleontologists Sven Sachs and Daniel Madzia has reclassified a nearly complete plesiosaur ...

How Bach’s anatomy may have handed him greatness A German anatomist analyzed a photograph of Bach’s skeleton, to calculate the composer’s impressive reach at the keyboard.

This is the first chance anyone has had to study Gorm the Old's skull with this level of detail. Technically, they can't even be 100-percent sure the skeleton really did belong to him, since no ...

Taphonomic study -- looking at everything that has happened to a skeleton following a person's death -- is key in understanding what happened on that fateful August day in 79 AD.

A YOUNG doctor has made an unusual donation to his old school – a life-sized skeleton. Gareth Rogers, 24, makes no bones about the support he received at Hummersknott Academy in Darlington ...

Bizarre egg-shaped skull unearthed from 4,000 years ago The shape of the skull on this new skeleton find has led some to believe that it answers the question of whether we're alone in the galaxy ...

A chance discovery made in southern France has revealed a rare specimen — an almost complete dinosaur skeleton found connected from its hind skull to its tail. The massive fossil came to light ...

Lara Maiklem, 48, discovered the skull and partial skeleton next to mudflats in the Thames. The remains are thought to be from a convict thrown overboard from an 18th-century prison ship.

A decapitated skeleton with its skull mysteriously placed at his feet and a 'mercenary' buried with his sword have been discovered in Roman-era graves By Bethany Dawson ...