Nivalon Medical Technologies Inc. has successfully produced the world's first fully patient-specific, motion-preserving spinal implant built entirely without metal, using AI-driven design and advanced ...

Analysis of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton shows that portions of the human spinal structure which enable walking motions developed millions of years earlier than previously thought. (CN) – ...

From shoulders to skulls, learn how our bones made humans unique in this excerpt from “Skeleton Keys” by Riley Black. The following is an excerpt of Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Riley ...

Amanda Smith: And more on the clever adaptations of the human spine later in The Body Sphere. But of course plenty can go wrong with your back, heaps of us get back pain, especially lower back pain.

"Turkana Boy," an exquisitely preserved 1.5-million-year-old human ancestor found in Kenya, may not have had dwarfism or scoliosis, new research suggests. Past studies had suggested that the ancient ...

For decades, scientists believed that a spine with multiple segments was an exclusive feature of land-dwelling animals. But the discovery of the same anatomical feature in a 345-million-year-old eel ...

Analysis of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, including vertebrae, neck and rib cage. The findings indicate that portions of ...

For more than 3 million years, Selam lay silent and still. Eager to tell her story, the almost perfect fossil skeleton of a 2 1/2 year-old toddler was discovered at Dikika, Ethiopia -- and she had a ...