Cells within tissues are continuously exposed to physical forces, including hydrostatic pressure ... cells in tissues such as the heart, lung and skeleton encounter nanoscale to macroscale ...

Soft-bodied animals like earthworms and sea anemones rely on hydrostatic “skeletons,” which use fluid pressure to maintain their shape and enable movement. For movement, their bodies work ...

From the skull to the smallest bone in your pinky toe, the skeleton acts as internal scaffolding to give stability to the body, and forms protective cocoons around important organs. Despite their ...

In 1805, Jacob Fidelis Ackermann, the first chairholder of anatomy at the University of Heidelberg, bought the two skeletons that he believed belonged to Schinderhannes and Schwarzer Jonas.

Call it a UFO: an unidentified floating object. Beachcombers were baffled over a creepy, “skeleton-like” figure with fins that washed ashore in the UK, as seen in viral photos making waves online.

Paula and Dave Regan discovered the unsettling object while walking on a beach in Kent, England, on March 10 Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...

Not far from Jerusalem, archaeologists have discovered the fifth-century burial of a person wrapped in heavy metal chains. But the Byzantine-era grave held another surprise: The person who had ...

As players collect bones during their travels, they can then build skeletons from them however they wish--with "millions of possibilities for unique species" according to the official NMS website ...

So far, 33 skeletons have been found near Eptapyrgio prison northeast of the city, a former Byzantine-era fortress later known as Yedi Kule under Ottoman rule, city officials said in a statement.

A 62-million-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal Date: March 11, 2025 Source: Yale University Summary: For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that ...

Burial under the altar is reserved for only the most honored individuals. This is how the enigmatic skeleton was found, still wrapped in its eternal tools of torture, by a team of archaeologists ...