Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD The humerus is your upper arm bone. It is the longest bone in the upper part of your body and is connected to many important tendons and ligaments. The ...

Find out everything you need to know about how your elbow works, the anatomy of your elbow, and different conditions that may affect your elbow.

TikTok user sells human bones, ignites ethical debate online A 21-year-old TikToker is selling spines and fetus skulls.

An exhibition at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles features some spectacular takes on human anatomy from the Renaissance to today.

In the 16th century, when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch of a glimpse of public dissections of the dead. In the ...

The answer changes as you grow – humans are born with more bones than they have as an adult. As we age, smaller bones and cartilage fuse together.

When anthropologist Donald Johanson spotted a 2-inch fragment of bone gleaming in the Ethiopian sun in 1974, he realized it was from a human elbow.

An analysis of two theropod dinosaur fossils has shown that they had a type of carpal bone (pisiform) in their wrists—a bone ...

The pelvis forms the base of the spine as well as the socket of the hip joint. The pelvic bones include the hip bones, sacrum, and coccyx. The hip bones are composed of three sets of bones that ...

The discovery of an ancient bone at a burial site in Kenya puts the origin of human hand dexterity more than half a million years earlier than previously thought.

An elbow can help determine the sex of a skeleton. In an effort to help identify skeletal remains of Thai descent, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine have found that examining ...