For a long time, the skeleton was seen as an amorphous tissue of little biological interest. But such a view ignored the large number of genetic and degenerative diseases affecting this organ.

A German high school laid its biology classroom skeleton to rest this week. The skeleton, named "Anh Bien" — Vietnamese for "mysterious peace," was buried in a local cemetery.

Biology Skeleton’s Missing Foot Could Be Sign of Oldest Known Amputation Teenager who lived 31,000 years ago in Borneo may have undergone surgery, researchers say ...

The skeleton belongs to a former headteacher of a Romanian school, Alexandru Grigore Popescu, he was a head teacher in the school for 10 years and taught biology for 50 years. But there was ...

This is a fluorescently dyed image of a corn snake skeleton. The spine is coiled around itself in the center of the main image (1), and the ribs can be seen as lines coming off the spine (2); the ...

This is the embryo of a veiled chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) that’s been stained to visualize its developing skeleton. Its bones are red (1), the cartilage is blue (2), and some of its developing ...