Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in humans. Axolotls are native to Mexico and critically endangered in their ...

The human body cannot survive long without water. After just a few days, concentration slips, organs begin to strain, and ...

A fossilized vulture feather reveals how volcanic ash can turn fragile tissues into stone with astonishing detail.

Prime Video’s new Japanese thriller Human Specimens is a strange show. We like strange shows, though, as our love of Pluribus has reminded us. But is this show strange in a good way or just ...

A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and selling body parts “as if they were baubles.” Authorities said Cedric Lodge was ...