Yeah, bones get a lot of attention, but they’d be pretty uselessby themselves. We’d flop around like a bony jellyfish. But connectthose bones together and you’ve got a flexible, strong skeletonthat ...

A new total knee replacement that saves all of the ligaments can make a person’s knee feel and move just like the original. During a traditional total knee replacement, the surgeon must remove the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people ...

You have thousands of ligaments and tendons in your body. Both are made of connective tissue and can be torn or overstretched, but they differ in function and are essential to proper body mechanics.

Bones are amazing. People are often surprised to learn that bone is a living tissue. It is widely understood that our bones have the ability to repair themselves after breaks and fractures, but they ...

Some of our bones are easy to see. The zygomatic bones that give our cheeks shape, the delicate phalanges of our fingers, and the bony bulbs that are our kneecaps all stand out from beneath the flesh.

Modern pantherine cats—such as leopards, tigers and lions—can roar because of a very specialized setup of small throat bones and ligaments that form part of their larynx, or voicebox. Now ...

An ancient bone belonging to a Neanderthal may change the way we think our human ancestors communicated. Tests performed on a 60,000 year-old Neanderthal hyoid bone show that the bone is ...

Neanderthals had the ability to speak like modern humans, according to a new study. In the last 20 years, some scientists have come to believe that Neanderthals had the ability to communicate with ...