Roughly 425 million years ago, in the warm seas over what is now southern China, there lived a meter-long bony fish with jaws ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and ...

Scientists discovered some of the oldest bony fish fossils in China. The fossils explain the early history of animals with backbones.

When a bone break is too severe to heal on its own, surgeons often rely on grafts or rigid metal implants — but both come ...

ETH researchers have developed a novel hydrogel consisting mainly of water and a polymer network. Using laser light, the researchers can very quickly solidify the hydrogel into a material with ...

Your femur connects many important muscles, tendons, and ligaments in your hips and knees to the other parts of your body, including parts of the circulatory system. More than that, it helps you carry ...

Chinese paleontologists have discovered the world's oldest complete bony fish fossils, dating back 436 million years ...