Analysis of a 3.3 million-year-old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, including vertebrae, neck and rib cage. The findings indicate that portions of ...

People who suffer from lower back problems are more likely to have a spine similar to that of the chimpanzee, our closest ape ancestor, researchers say. Back pain can result from a lesion known as a ...

A two-million-year-old fossil could change what we thought we knew about one of our ancient human relatives. A few vertebrae from the lower back of an Australopithecus sediba reveal that the hominin ...

A chance mutation that led to spinal defects in a zebrafish has opened a little window into our own fishy past. Rising fifth-year Duke graduate student Brianna Peskin, who started the project during ...