The backbone or spine (or the vertebral column) can be divided into four major curves. The shapes of these curves allow our bodies to properly distribute weight in different positions and ...

New research provides the first direct evidence that Australopithecus, an important early human ancestor that displayed a mix of ape-like and human-like traits, consumed very little or no meat ...

Donald Trump walks by Matt Gaetz, left, after a day in court during his criminal trial in New York this spring. Former Rep. Gaetz, Trump's nominee for attorney general, has vowed to purge the ...

By Susan Mulcahy, Frank DiGiacomo The gossip column is dead. With one exception. In November of 1976, right after Rupert Murdoch bought the New York Post, he tasked James Brady with executing his ...

These vertebrae are the smallest in the vertebral column. They are known as C1–C7. People may also refer to C1 as the atlas and C2 as the axis. This segment of the spine spans from the base of ...

Type 2 diabetes alters the behavior of disks in the vertebral column, making them stiffer, and also causes the disks to change shape earlier than normal. As a result, the disk's ability to ...

and the orientation of the vertebral column.” But while the skeletal form underlies bipedalism, the team continued, the genetic basis of skeletal proportions (SPs) is not well characterized.

Even the post-cranial skeleton carries sign of the passage to the bipedalism as evidenced by the presence of the vertebral column curvatures already in the Australopithecus and hominid Sahelanthropus ...

The skull, as its discoverers then explained, belonged to a hominid with a brain similar in size to that of a chimpanzee, but which was already possibly bipedal, judging by the place of insertion of ...

Found in 1979, Lucy represented the species Australopithecus afarensis and lived 3.2 million years ago. The freshly dated fossils also belong to the genus Australopithecus, an ancient hominin that ...