The bones were initially dismissed because they were thought to belong to a man. A new study may hold a clue to solving the decades-old mystery of what happened to American aviator Amelia Earhart, who ...

A new study claims that Amelia Earhart’s bones were found on Nikumaroro Island in the South Pacific. Richard Jantz, a professor at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, says previous research ...

Why do so many black adults continue to look youthful as they age? A new study says it's in their bones. Researchers found that the facial bones of black adults retain a higher mineral content than ...

Taking a higher dose of vitamin D to protect your bones isn't necessary if you are a healthy middle-aged or older adult with no existing bone disease or vitamin D deficiency, a new study found.

Humans may associate scaling branches with childish behavior — classic monkeying around — but in truth, climbing trees is a big part of our collective story. Ancient bones unearthed in Africa go a ...

Some of the oldest dinosaurs didn't have hollow bones, suggesting that skeletal air sacs evolved independently in three lineages: long-necked sauropodomorphs, meat-eating theropods and pterosaurs.

Archaeologists studying bone fragments from a Viking cemetery in Heath Wood identified animals brought from Scandinavia, study says. Photo from Julian Richards and University of York The Vikings ...