She knew that deep inside the cave lay thousands of bones. Small bones and large bones, jawbones and ankle bones, finger bones and foot bones and skulls. The bones belonged to strange creatures ...

Erickson, a paleobiologist at Florida State University, is an expert in the feeding behavior of tyrannosaurs, including the bite marks left on bones. That research spurred him to find out more ...

A collaborator asked him to analyze a toxin found in the venom of Australia’s deadly funnel-web spider. The work led to clues about the toxin’s function, a paper in Nature Structural and ...

What is a Japanese spider crab? They may look like something from a 1950s sci-fi film, but Japanese spider crabs are gentle giants. And giants they are. Of the 60,000 species of crustaceans on ...

Imagine you are an archaeologist excavating at a new building site in East London, the location of an ancient cemetery. Deep down you uncover bones that look old. You recover a full skull with teeth, ...

Spider Webs and Drugs The regularity of the delicate structures made by spiders is one of the wonders of nature. Now abnormalities in these patterns are used to study the mechanism by which drugs ...

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 ...

Sep. 26, 2024 — Each year, about 2.2 million bone-grafting procedures are performed worldwide, the gold standard of care being autografting, which uses the patient's own bone for tooth ...

By careful study of the bones, Wheatley can determine—with astonishing accuracy—the age, sex, race, and stature of the deceased, as well as many other facts about the person’s lifestyle and culture.

Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7 and line a baking tray with baking paper. Put the bones on the tray and roast for 30 minutes. Turn the bones, add the onion, carrot and garlic and roast for ...

Pete Volk (he/they) is Polygon’s Curation Editor, with a particular love for action and martial arts movies. One fateful college weekend, ActionMax, the genre spinoff of Cinemax, programmed ...