Human bones make the best bone daggers, researchers studying weapons prized by the people of New Guinea have discovered. Using imaging, computer simulations and good-old-fashioned stabbing tests ...

The adult human skeleton consists of 206 bones. The spine has 33 irregularly shaped bones called vertebrae. The cervical spine, the neck region, is made up of the first seven vertebrae.

Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans. Rating: Context: Though both giraffes and humans have the same number of individual neck bones (known as vertebrae), the two species also have ...

These bones, stacked one on top of the other, form the backbone of the neck in nearly all mammals. While a human’s neck bones are modest in size, a giraffe’s cervical vertebrae are elongated ...

In the early 20th century, numerous tribes in New Guinea created daggers out of the bones of cassowaries and of humans. The daggers, used in hand-to-hand combat, were incised with elaborate ...

Warriors in New Guinea favored human bone daggers as objects of great prestige, and deliberately engineered them to be stronger, according to a new study.

The UK Biobank has now scanned 100,000 people, taking recordings of hearts, brains, blood vessels and bones. As the world's ...