When a medical examiner needs help identifying a deceased person and determining how that person died, they turn to forensic anthropologists.

After bringing the fossils back to lab for study, which included conducting CT scans at a local hospital, the researchers found examples of air pockets throughout its axial skeleton—some in ...

From the skull to the smallest bone in your pinky toe, the skeleton acts as internal scaffolding to give stability to the body, and forms protective cocoons around important organs. Despite their ...