Fifty years ago, a remarkable fossil was unearthed in the Afar Rift Valley of Ethiopia, forever transforming our understanding of human evolution. Uncovered by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human skeleton — our internal framework that includes bones and cartilage — evolved over ...

At the Mütter Museum, that includes skulls, limbs and gallstones. The medical museum has been shining a light on the inner workings of mankind for 160 years. Glass cases display human skeletons and ...

When Anna Dhody was growing up in Philadelphia, in the nineteen-eighties, her mother used the city’s museums as a kind of babysitter. “She would just drop me off at the Penn Museum and be, like, ...

Mummies and human skeletons enclosed in glass have acted as biological representations of history. Some museum institutions are grappling with the moral dilemma of what to do with human remains that ...

This unique, and at times unnerving, museum tells the story of how modern surgery was developed, but it's not an attraction ...

For years, a man's giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW. Today, the donor display for Joseph Williams depicts not only ...

Studying medieval skeletons is a direct way to obtain information about life in medieval societies with very little other information available about the living conditions of ordinary people. In this ...

Malaria is often considered a tropical disease, but data hidden in historical human remains has shed new light on the parasite's world travels. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Skulls from the Josef Hyrtl Collection at the Mutter Museum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Copyright AFP Hector RETAMAL Skulls from the Josef Hyrtl Collection at ...