bones

 

Why space lettuce could be the pharmacy astronauts need

By Leto Sapunar

 /  Mar 22, 2022

 

Humans probably didn’t mean to tame sheep and goats

By Philip Kiefer

 /  Jan 19, 2022

 

Medieval knights rode tiny horses into battle

By Hannah Seo

 /  Jan 12, 2022

 

These skeletons might be evidence of the oldest known mercury poisonings

By Rahul Rao

 /  Nov 22, 2021

 

Surprise: Ants have teeth. Here’s how they keep them sharp.

By Rahul Rao

 /  Sep 9, 2021

 

The weirdest things we learned this week: Falcon sex hats and buying human skulls on Instagram

By Rachel Feltman

 /  Apr 3, 2019

 

The human bone trade is legal—and booming on Instagram

By Riley Black

 /  Mar 5, 2019

 

Humans may have arrived in the Americas 15,000 years earlier than we thought

By Philip Kiefer

 /  Jun 8, 2021

 

An Artist Is Growing A Skeleton Human Hand In A Lab

By Meaghan Lee Callaghan

 /  Oct 12, 2016

 

You’ll never have as many bones as you did at birth (and other strange skeleton facts)

By Alex Schwartz

 /  Feb 5, 2020

 

Most humans don’t have tails. So why do we have the bones for it?

By Molly Glick

 /  Feb 7, 2020

 

This ancient bony fish was a sexual pioneer

By Rachel Feltman

 /  Feb 14, 2020

 

How to keep your bones strong—and even make them stronger

By Grace Wade

 /  Feb 19, 2020

 

Your bones do more than you give them credit for

By Kat Eschner

 /  Feb 25, 2020

 

Improving your baby’s bone health starts in the womb

By Mary Kearl

 /  Feb 24, 2020

 

Six rare bone disorders you probably haven’t heard of

By Sara Chodosh

 /  Feb 27, 2020