Photo caption: Little Foot was discovered in the 1990s in a cave in South Africa and is the most intact ancient skeleton of any human ancestor. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible ...

But with humans, it’s all going on under the skin. The human skeleton is made up of more than 200 bones that give protection and support and allow the body to move. The skeleton gives the body ...

Modern human anatomy has built on the strengths ... toppling to one side when all our weight is on one foot in mid-stride. Chimps have thigh bones that do not slope inward to the knee like ours ...

Archaeologists found the remains of at least 129 people, many of them bearing the injuries of battle, dating to when Rome battled Germanic people nearly 2,000 years ago.