Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator considered a "sea dragon" of the time.

Will Oremus writes about the ideas, products and power struggles shaping the digital world for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2021, he spent eight years as Slate's senior ...

Spinal disks are rubbery pads between the vertebrae, the specialized bones that make up the spinal column. Doctors call them intervertebral disks. Each disk is a flat, circular capsule about an ...

Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get narrow ...

Mastodon starter Tyson Greenwood allowed one run in the second inning and one in the third before Cole Newell took over in relief. Newell allowed three hits and walked three but held Rochester (14 ...

Figure 1: A skeleton of a Steller's sea eagle, of northeastern Asia, one of more than 388 tetrapods that Kyogo Kawaguchi's team analyzed. They determined its ...

A clear link between the arrangement of vertebrae in the spine and certain genes holds for mammals, but not for birds and amphibians Figure 1: A skeleton of a Steller’s sea eagle, of northeastern Asia ...

STITCHED ME UP. I HAD NINE STITCHES ON MY FACE AND I HAD A CRACK VERTEBRAE ON THE SIDE OF MY NECK. DECKER ISN’T TOO WORRIED ABOUT LIFE WITHOUT A CAR. HE SAYS. HIS TWIN BROTHER AND GENEROUS ...