Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

Usually when you see a bone on your dish, you try not to eat it. But many different preparations of fish have edible ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

Human skeletons are often described in neat textbook numbers, but real bodies are far messier and more interesting. Extra ...

Dairy tends to be high in calcium, but milk and yogurt aren’t the only high-calcium foods. Other options include canned fish, ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

Learn more about the whale bones originally thought to be woolly mammoths' and how the hunt for the youngest mammoth ...

Researchers have uncovered thousands of preserved metabolic molecules inside fossilized bones millions of years old, offering ...

In a 10-year study of postmenopausal women, tea consumption shows a small but significant benefit for bone mineral density, ...