For years, fans knew Steven W. Bailey as Joe the bartender, the friendly owner of Emerald City Bar on Grey’s Anatomy. He’s a ...

So-called resurrectionists pilfered graves for corpses and trundled them off to hospitals. An outraged public occasionally ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little Foot,” fossil an exquisitely preserved hominin found in South Africa’s ...

Galen, the pioneering Greek physician who influenced Western medicine through the 1700s. Portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron. Credit: Public Domain Galen of Pergamon was the most influential ancient ...

Herophilos of Chalcedon, the pioneering anatomist who transformed the study of the human body through direct observation. Credit: Ecelan, CC BY-SA 3.0 ES <https ...

The Greater Altoona Career and Technology Center has acquired an Anatomage Table that provides a life-sized interactive model of the human body to allow students to have human dissection experience.

New technologies have emerged for teaching anatomy to medical students, from full-size replica human models to virtual reality programs. But training with cadavers -- called donor dissection -- ...