Cultures worldwide have spun curious and eerie tales about the human body’s quirks, shaping beliefs that persist to this day ...

The human body has evolved to shield its vital organs, from the brain's hard skull and meninges to the ribs and sternum ...

The karakia from Māori kaumātua (elders) carries through a room filled with human specimens at the University of Auckland as a long line of students file towards the Human Anatomy Lab for the start of ...

Your house is just like the human body. It is made up of different systems working together. If one part fails to function ...

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...

Today, there are more applications than ever, capable of revealing the complete anatomy of the human body – however, only a handful are capable of diving through the layers using unique cutting ...

The human anatomy became one of his great interests ... He drew and described nearly all the bones and muscles of the body in beautiful detail, as well as investigating their biomechanics.

Superior High School students Mark Purcell, left, and Kaitlyn Forester tie a knot to a plaster bone and bucket to secure its ...

of the human body to learn about anatomy and disease was practised by the Greek physicians Herophilus (335 - 280 BC) and Erasistratus (305 - 250 BC) in Alexandria in what is now Egypt. But ...