While humans have 206 to 213 bones in our body, most sharks have about 200 to 400 structures made of cartilage. The exact number varies depending on the species. The only part of a shark's skeleton ...

The pelvic bones of males and females may also be distinctive; females often have a ... on the front teeth may be the result of stripping vegetation from branches, as some apes do today.

(Thames Valley Archaeological Services) (CN) — An international team of scientists has found smallpox strains in the teeth of 1,400-year-old Viking skeletons, providing not only the earliest record of ...

a condition that almost certainly would have been fatal in the past. Analysing the bones and teeth of individuals can give us insights into the details of their lives, such as whether they smoked a ...

"Normally, we would be lucky to find a few teeth in the graves, but here we have entire skeletons," Michael Borre Lundø, who has led the site excavation for the last six months, told the ...