From alligators to ostriches, the Anthropology Department's Vertebrate Osteology Collection is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. "We have over 12,000 vertebrate specimens in our collections.

A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos found in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge site pushes back the date for ancient bone tool use by around 1 million years.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From the moment visitors step into the lobby, the Museum of Osteology lives up to its name. The fully articulated skeleton of an ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton has yielded the oldest known genome of the bacterium behind syphilis, revealing a lineage unlike ...

The bones were discovered on Geoffrey Bay over the weekend after wild weather stripped back layers of sand, revealing the orange-hued remains. Resident Victori Olympia Day said the erosion on the ...