Isotope changes in the bones demonstrate a similar pattern across far-flung islands.

Juan Valverde de Amusco’s anatomical drawings corrected some earlier errors while making anatomy more accessible.

Genetic analysis of a bone fragment reveals the girl’s mixed ancestry 90,000 years ago. 

How a robber baron and an eccentric inventor solved a millennia-old question about horses.

The oldest-known ice mummy consumed high amounts of fat.

The Merck biochemist found the compound that led to a popular cholesterol-lowering drug.

The Challenger expedition's data on ocean temperatures and currents, seawater chemistry, life in the deep sea, and the geology of the seafloor spurred the rise of modern oceanography.

The now-extinct gibbon was buried with the grandmother of China’s first emperor and her many pets.

Ancient bones from Ireland reveal that farming has changed nitrogen composition in land for the last 3,000 years.