The coelacanth is known as a "living fossil" because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite ...

A new study published in L’Anthropologie is shedding light on a remarkable discovery from Skhul Cave in Israel. Researchers ...

A group of North Texas doctors and scientists printed part of a human femur—the longest and strongest bone in the body—that mimics the strength, flexibility and overall mechanics of a real ...

A 3D printer helped save the life of a New Jersey man whose skull was crumbling.

Greg Morrison didn't hesitate to say yes when his doctor said they needed to replace part of his skull with a implant created by a 3D printer.

Greg Morrison of Brick underwent three brain surgeries that saved his life, but left part of his skull collapsing. Using 3D printer technology, doctors at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in ...

A bone dragged to a Birmingham, Alabama, home by the same dog that previously found a human skull has been determined to be a leg bone. Jefferson County Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Yates on Friday ...

Four months ago, a dog in east Birmingham showed up at home with a human skull. That same dog now dragged home what could be another human bone.

By 3D the coral-like materials, surgeons can quickly have access to an on-demand supply of grafting material. This coral-like 3D-printed grafting material was implanted on the tibias of test mice.

Mechanical engineers designed a 3D-printed femur that could help doctors prepare for surgeries to repair bones and develop treatments for bone tumors. The study, which focused on the middle ...

Elizabeth Diederichs, University of Waterloo PhD candidate, holding a miniature skull that the research group 3D-printed using the new material. A research team from the University of Waterloo has ...