When Bill Pyles first saw the envelop addressed to “The Family Bone,” he worried someone was complaining about his skeletons ...

Five remains in the Museum’s collection show signs of the final, severe stage of the disease. In the video below, osteologist Linzi Harvey shows how you can spot the tell-tale signs of this disease.

While Pyles knew locals were tickled by his family’s towering skeleton exhibit, he did not know that it was serving as a daily bright spot for a cancer patient — until he received a letter in ...

The skeleton collection includes some of the Museum's oldest and most famous specimens, including a number of domestic birds from the collections of Charles Darwin. Two of our hornbill skulls were ...

What Are Blood and Bone Marrow Cancers? Bone marrow cancer is a form of cancer that starts in the spongy tissue -- the marrow -- inside your bones. Marrow’s main job is to make blood cells.

Bioactive glasses, a filling material which can bond to tissue and improve the strength of bones and teeth, has been combined ...

The sale is the second-ever of a fossilised dinosaur skeleton auctioned by Sotheby's. The first, a T-rex nicknamed Sue, was sold to Chicago's Field Museum in ... It has 79 bone elements, stands ...

which is the longest bone in the body. This data is combined with a similar measurement of the tibia, or lower shinbone, to provide a very accurate estimation of height. Once Wheatley has finished his ...

These tests may focus on your skeleton as well as your belly and pelvic areas. That way doctors can check for signs that the cancer has spread. If you have symptoms such as bone pain and broken ...

Less commonly, it can point to bone cancer. Bone pain may present as tenderness initially, then escalate to a more constant or intermittent pain. It may also become more pronounced during the ...

If they're well-maintained and/or have good dental work such as fillings, they were able to afford proper dental care—another clue as to the identity of your skeleton. Consult a scientist who ...

Within the skeleton there are different kinds of bone. The type of bone determines the amount of movement. Type of bone Example in body Description Long Femur Cylindrical in shape and found in the ...