Some adults do indeed have more than 206 bones. These extras, known as accessory bones or supernumerary bones, may occur when ...

Learn how Olympic skeleton competition works — from the structure of heats and timing rules to how medal winners are determined across men’s and women’s events at the Winter Games of Milan Cortina ...

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that redraws the map of the ancient world. His DNA captures a moment when people from ...

If you’re thinking about putting up Home Depot’s now iconic 12-foot skeleton this Halloween, the designer who helped bring it to life shares some foolproof tips. Believe it or not, it’s been just over ...

USA Bobsled/Skeleton announced the athletes who will carry the stars and stripes into the 2025–26 World Cup season. Four ...

A medieval skeleton found in Austria has a unique appendage — an iron-and-wood prosthetic foot. Researchers say the 6th century remains are the oldest found in Europe with a prosthetic limb. The ...

The skeleton's right arm rests on its lap and its left arm lies suspended in the air, as if resting on a stick A 1,000 year-old human skeleton which was buried sitting cross-legged in India has been ...

Chasing an Olympic dream is difficult at any age. Doing it at 35, after a serious spinal injury, is even harder. Kendall ...

Austria’s Janine Flock won a World Cup women’s skeleton race on Friday, while Mystique Ro of the U.S. got her best finish of the season. Ro was leading after the first of two runs, but Flock overtook ...

An image supposedly showing a pixie skeleton is frequently shared online along with the claim that the strange remains were found in the Rocky Mountains and that "scientific tests" had concluded the ...