BURNABY, CANADA—Biological anthropologist Kimberly Plomp of Simon Fraser University has investigated the relationship between vertebral shape, upright locomotion, and human spinal health using ...

This lizard's DNA might hold the key to regenerating human tissue. chris velazco. Senior Editor, Mobile. ... to say nothing of the tube of cartilage where the vertebrae used to be.

Almost 200 examples of human spines threaded onto reed posts have been discovered in Peru, revealing a unique way of treating the dead, a study found.

Hundreds of the large, elaborate structures are spread across the Chincha Valley, about 124 miles south of Peru’s capital, Lima.

Chincha people might have threaded vertebrae onto sticks to reconstruct their dead after their remains were damaged by tomb raiders, the authors say. Nature 602 , 186 (2022) doi: https://doi.org ...